Wednesday morning, February 15, along Leeuwpoort Street in the Boksburg CBD, the driver of the Dyna truck informed the metro police that he was transporting the old tyres to an open veld to burn them, with the objective of harvesting the wire to sell as scrap metal.
However, owing to the extremely poor condition of the truck, the metro police were compelled to declare the vehicle unroadworthy and deregister it from the road. The vehicle was then removed to the EMPD Boksburg pound.
On arrival at the Boksburg offices to complete paperwork for the impounded truck, the officers were approached by a man claiming to be a messenger of the truck owner. The ‘messenger’ produced R500 in cash and tried to bribe the officers to turn a blind eye to the offence.
The 33-year-old man was read his rights, handcuffed and taken to Boksburg Central police station, where he was charged with bribery as well as interfering in metro police duties.
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