No Halloween party as robbers trick their way into victim’s house
Boksburg police are hunting a gang of armed robbers, who lied their way into the home of a Parkdene resident by pretending to be contractors, on October 23.
One of the robbers reportedly arrived at the gate just before 10am, and told the domestic worker that he was sent by the owner of the house to get the measurements of the property.
The man took out his phone and told the domestic worker he was phoning the owner of the house.
The unsuspecting worker let the crook into the home of her employer after he claimed he was talking to the owner.
All of a sudden, three other men joined him.
They threatened the worker with a firearm and tied her with a rope before stealing electrical appliances and fleeing the scene in a white van.
*Also on Friday, October 23, four armed men forced their way into a house on Hofmeyer Street, Boksburg South, and robbed a domestic worker of her boss’s electrical appliances. They fled the scene before the police arrived.
* Meanwhile, one kind man told the police that his car was hijacked at knife point while he was driving in Farrar Park.
According to a police report, the victim picked up hitchhikers (a woman and a man) at the corner of Leeuwpoort Street and Rondebult Road, on October 23.
All of a sudden the man took out a knife with which he threatened the victim, while telling him that the car now belonged to him.
The hijacker forced the victim to drive to an unknown open veld where both the hitchhikers assaulted and robbed him of his cellphone and cash, before dumping him there.
The vehicle was later recovered a few metres from where the victim was left.
