Nine arrested for cable theft
The EMPD Anti-Cable Theft Unit together with CPF members rounded up the suspects.
After receiving information about people digging up copper cables along Heidelberg Road in Brakpan over the weekend, the EMPD Security and Standards Anti-Cable Theft Unit members investigated and were able to apprehend nine suspects found in possession of seven metres of copper cable.
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Two members of the EMPD Anti-Cable Theft Unit, together with CPF members, rounded up the male suspects who had excavated a trench to get to copper cable valued at R12 000.
The suspects, aged between 17 and 29, were arrested on charges of malicious damage to property and theft.
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