The ongoing Safer Festive Season Operations have once again produced positive results when six suspects were arrested in connection with a spate of armed robberies in Dundee on Friday, 29 December 2023.
The Glencoe K9 Unit, working together with the uMzinyathi District High Density Team operationalised intelligence about the suspects who were planning to commit an armed robbery. The suspects were outsmarted and police found them busy plotting their shenanigans at a house in Forrestdale, Dundee.
The suspects were found in possession of five firearms and several rounds of ammunition. Two of the recovered firearms were found to be replica firearms (a blank pistol and a gas gun). They were also found in possession of suspected stolen liquor and preliminary investigations have revealed that the suspects were responsible for a robbery at a tavern in Dundee two days prior to their arrest.
The suspects are also linked with a burglary at a clothing store in the area, following the recovery of suspected stolen property at the house they were in.
The six suspects, aged between 23 and 42 years old, will appear in court soon on charges of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition as well as possession of suspected stolen property
