Four men masquerading as hired help for a Wadeville company were arrested by the Elsburg SAPS at 4.45pm last Saturday after they attempted to steal tyres.
The men told a woman employee who entered the warehouse and caught them in the act of loading the tyres onto a truck that they had been employed by someone in the company to do the job.
Once they were finished they told her they would be paid.
She went to the manager and asked him if he gave permission to the unknown men to load the tyres but the manager said he had no knowledge of anyone being employed to load tyres.
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He returned to the warehouse with the female employee to see what was happening and found the men still loading tyres.
“The tyres, which had already been loaded, were worth R72 000.
“They summoned the police to the scene and the four men were arrested for alleged theft of tyres and will appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court soon to face a charge of theft,” said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.
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