This follows an incident in which a 36-year-old suspect from Witbank was arrested, after he reported a false case of hijacking to the Benoni SAPS on Friday, August 1.
Police spokesperson Lieut Nomsa Sekele said the suspect told the police, when opening the case, that he came to Benoni to meet people who had promised him a job for which he applied online.
“He said that, when he arrived here, the people took him to Kempton Park and that, after a while, they escorted him back to Benoni,” said Sekele.
He then told the police that he had been hijacked while on his way back to Witbank.
“The man claimed that he was approached by three men armed with firearms while waiting at a red traffic light at the Snake Road on-ramp,”said Sekele.
“He said the men jumped into his vehicle.”
The man then told the police that from then on he could not remember anything, except waking up at a place unknown to him and without his vehicle.
An investigation, however, revealed that he had pawned the vehicle in Boksburg.
He was immediately arrested and detained at the Benoni SAPS.
He is facing charges of perjury and fraud.
The suspect was due to appear in the Benoni Magistrates Court on August 4.
