BLUE Security reported an assault and more than 12 housebreaking and theft incidents on the Berea over the festive season with residents nabbing at least two intruders.
Blue Security operations manager Brian Jackson said criminals continued to target residential and business properties over December, however vigilant residents working together with the company managed to thwart several incidents.
He said there were several attempted housebreakings and burglaries reported as well as incidents where opportunistic criminals jumped over property walls to steal garden tools and bicycles. He reported that an intruder assaulted a resident who had disturbed him on his Florida Road property after he had jumped over the wall at around 10.30pm at night.
“The intruder fled the scene and it was not clear whether anything was stolen,” he said.
Jackson said a family in Mountain Rise Road had a lucky escape at 2.06pm on Monday after three alleged housebreakers driving a black BMW with no registration number attempted to enter their home in broad daylight.
“The gang removed the cover of the gate’s motor and managed to press the manual button to open the gate. Fortunately, the resident noticed the gate opening and closed it before the gang could gain access. They fled the scene without taking anything,” he said.
He said a gang had also attempted to derail the driveway gate of a business premises in Enfield Avenue at 2.28am on Monday morning but fled without gaining entry.
Jackson said residents arrested two trespassers, one in Archbell Road in Glenmore and another in Lambert Road in Morningside.
“In the first case the resident spotted and arrested a trespasser who was attempting to steal clothes from a washing line in broad daylight, while in the second incident the resident saw an intruder climbing on a wall and then chased him down before arresting him in Windermere Road. The suspects were handed over to the police,” he said.
He said housebreaking incidents were reported in Steel Road and Arran Road in Morningside and in Nicolai Crescent in Glenmore, Boxley Place in Umbilo and Marist Road and Lamont Road in Glenwood where burglars fled with laptops, child’s toy laptop, an iPad, a bicycle, computers, a television, DVD player and a camera.
