A two-year-old child was recovered and reunited with his family after being in the backseat of a car when it was hijacked next to the Engen garage in Parkdene on April 2.
According to police reports, the mother reported she had just parked her car, a black Audi, in the parking area of the garage when two gunmen approached her.
They aimed a gun at her before jumping into her car and driving off with the child inside.
The car was, however, later found abandoned in an unspecified location in Holomisa, where the child was found safe still inside the car alone.
He was not hurt. Seemingly, the hijackers were driving in another vehicle, before they hijacked the woman’s Audi.
Stolen vehicles
Police are investigating two cases of theft of a motor vehicle after two cars were reported stolen in two separate incidents in Boksburg.
Thieves stole a vehicle, a white Hyundai H100, from Bulpin
Street in Parkrand sometime during the night between April 1 and 2.
Also, a Brakpan man was left stranded with goods after thieves stole his vehicle, a blue Ford Ranger, while parked in the parking lot of Sunward Lifestyle Centre on April 4.
According to police reports, the victim parked the vehicle at about 17:20 and went shopping; however, when he returned to the spot minutes later, the vehicle was nowhere to be found.
Home invasion
Burglars forced their way into a residential property on Cilliers Street in Cinderella and stole valuable goods while the family members were asleep, sometime during the night between March 30 and 31.
The family woke up at about 06:00 to find that their TV set and personal computer had been stolen.
In another home invasion, a resident of Ballotina Road told the police he woke up on the morning on April 4 to find thugs had invaded his house and stole two laptops, a toaster and a TV set. They forced open the window to gain entry.
Business robbery
A gang of about 10 gunmen recently stormed the Dis-Chem on Kingfisher Road in Sunward Park, robbed customers and ransacked the store.
According to police reports, the robbers arrived at about 07:45 and held both staff and the customers at gunpoint before stealing a range of cosmetics and perfumes, robbing customers of their cellphones and fleeing the scene.
