Five men aged between 23 and 34 are expected to make a second appearance in the Komatipoort Periodical Court tomorrow for a formal bail application having appeared at the same court yesterday.
They are charged with possession of stolen motor vehicles. According to the police, on Tuesday, September 10 police were tipped-off about a suspicious stolen vehicle roaming around town at Komatipoort. They followed the tip-off, leading them to a guesthouse nearby. Upon arrival, the officers found vehicles and the drivers and occupants of the vehicles fled but the police managed to arrest three of them.
A short probe revealed that three cars were allegedly stolen in Gauteng. Police confiscated five vehicles, three which were driven by the arrested suspects, a Toyota Land Cruiser, Isuzu Double Cab bakkies as well as a Toyota Rav4. Later on the day, the police received another tip-off about suspected stolen vehicles, an Isuzu bakkie and a one Toner truck along the N4 and at Lebombo Border Post. “We managed to move swiftly and arrested an additional two suspects,” said the police.