AN alert Blue Security armed response officer swooped on a suspect he spotted fleeing from a property in Morningside in the early hours of last Saturday morning.
Blue Security’s Andreas Mathios said an armed response officer had responded to an alarm activation at the property when he saw the suspect running from the property. The incident occurred at around 1.10am.
“He managed to apprehend the suspect and asked him what he was doing on the premises. The suspect responded that he was looking for a place to sleep. The officer handcuffed him and called for back up to the scene,” Mathios said.
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When the back up officers arrived they searched the premises and found that one of the doors had been opened.
“There was no one living on the premises because the property is undergoing renovations,” he said.
While inspecting the building the officers found a second suspect who was hiding behind a retaining wall.
“The first suspect claimed that he did not know the second suspect who had joined him to find a place to sleep on the premises,” Mathios said.
Mathios said it appeared that nothing had been stolen from the premises.
“The first suspect was in possession of an Okapi knife. Both were handed over to the Berea SAPS,” he said.
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