Forest Hills family tied up in armed robbery
"The robbers threatened to put their child in the microwave if they did not cooperate."
HILLCREST police, together with Durban Metro Police, ProForce Security and Tracker, recovered goods that were stolen from house a Forest Hills home on Thursday.
The items, which included two plasma TVs, books, shoes, bags, DVDs, Playstation games, three laptops, a subwoofer, a coffee making machine and a home theatre system were recovered at a house in Wyebank.
According to Hillcrest SAPS communications officer, Cst Ndumiso Manqele, two men armed with a gun robbed a house in Forest Hills on Thursday at about 1.45am.
“It is alleged that the owner of the house was smoking outside when he saw two men coming towards him. He ran back to the house screaming for help, but the two men caught up with him and pushed him to the floor, pointing a gun at him.
“The robbers threatened to kill him if his wife did not open the bedroom door,” he said.
Manqele said the couple was tied up with a tie before the robbers went to another bedroom where the wife’s brother was sleeping.
“They also tied him up with a tie and demanded bank cards and pins. The robbers threatened to put their child in the microwave if they did not cooperate. They ransacked the house and fled in the victim’s two cars.”
The items were discovered in a house in Wyebank after searching several houses in the area.
The two cars were discovered in KwaNdengezi with the help of Pieter Laubscher from a local tracking company, who traced the cars’ whereabouts.
The Hillcrest police are investigating a case of house robbery and the robbers are still at large.
