BLUE Security has urged residents to press charges after a car battery thief was apprehended twice in one day.
While on patrol this morning, Blue Security’s armed response officers caught a man attempting to steal a car battery.
The man was apprehended and SAPS was called in.
The home owner chose not to press charges and the man was released.
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The company’s operations director and spokesman, Brian Jackson, said, “When homeowners do not press charges, suspects often revert to their original plan.”
Hours later, another team of patrollers apprehended a man on the N3. The man was found to be carrying a backpack that contained three car batteries.
“It turned out to be the very same suspect,” said Jackson. “The suspect divulged two of the areas where he had stolen them, All the items were handed over to Pinetown SAPS.”
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