When Primrose police arrived at a house in Blackwood Road in Primrose last Tuesday, after responding to a complaint of house robbery, they found a gold Volkswagen parked in the driveway.
While officers were investigating, members of the EMPD, accompanied by personnel from a local tracking company, arrived at the home.
“They told the officers that they had tracked the vehicle from Etwatwa in Benoni where it had reportedly been hijacked,” explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.
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Police ran the vehicle’s registration and serial numbers and discovered that it was in fact linked to an Etwatwa Police Station case number.
“Officers questioned a 44-year-old man who was in the yard who alleged that the vehicle had been parked at the house by someone else.
“However, tenants on the property told police that the man who had been questioned had been driving the vehicle,” said Maome.
Police searched the house and found the vehicle’s keys, as well as a bag containing gloves and the manual of the car in his room.
He was arrested and charged with the possession of a suspected hijacked vehicle.
He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court soon.
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