The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) management is pleased with the recent development for successfully tracing and apprehending three more suspects of cash in-transit robberies in Gauteng.
The Serious Organised Crime Investigation Unit arrested the trio, Mannie Mathe (59), Nhlanhla Isaac Hadebe (49) and Nhlanhla Eugene Manana (44), on Tuesday at their respective residences.
The trio, with their accomplice Thabiso Mokobori (35), who was arrested last month and is still in custody, were positively linked through DNA to a cash-in-transit robbery that took place in November 2018 in Katlehong.
It is alleged that the suspects attacked and robbed a cash security van with an undisclosed amount of money.
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One of the security guards was shoved into the back of the armoured vehicle before the armed gang fled the scene.
Mathe, Hadebe and Manana appeared before the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to face charges of armed robbery, possession of an unlicensed firearm, a rifle and ammunition, possession of a suspected stolen vehicle and causing malicious damage to property.
The case was postponed to May 21 due to Mathe’s ill health.
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