Stolen goods recovered from shacks in uMhlanga
Four shacks were discovered in the Ridgeside area along the M4 near the turn off to Gateway Shopping Centre.
A JOINT operation involving members of the Durban North SAPS, Blue Security and the Umhlanga Improvement Precinct (UIP) led to the raid of a criminal hideout and the recovery of stolen goods in a newly discovered developing informal settlement in uMhlanga on Tuesday morning.
Blue Security’s operations director Brian Jackson said armed response offers from the company, together with members of the Durban Norths SAPS raided the, until now, well hidden informal settlement in uMhlanga’s Ridgeside area.
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“We received intelligence from informants this morning who told us that they could take us to the house where the criminals, who are doing all the housebreakings in uMhlanga, are living, and where the stolen goods were being kept. We partnered with the Durban North SAPS to investigate further and discovered at least four concealed shacks that had been constructed in the Ridgeside area along the M4 near the turn off to Gateway Shopping Centre,” Jackson said.
He added police found a myriad of stolen goods.
“The amount of stolen goods that were recovered included printers, scanners, knives, clothing, an electric weeder, purses, handbags, at least 10 to 15 pairs of shoes, a box full of foreign currency including dollars and pounds sterling. The goods were recovered and taken to the office of the UIP. No arrests have been made at this stage,” he said.
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