Dangerous chemical used in Greenwood Park hijacking
Hijackers resort to drugging their victim in a case that has left a victim without his car and kilometres away from home.
A HIJACKING victim was suffocated with a chemical that caused him to pass out Greenwood Park SAPS said today.
This has prompted the station to send out a crime alert to motorists following not only a hijackings but also a kidnappings in the space of two days.
In the first hijacking police said a powerful chemical was used.
“On 23 May at 8.30pm the driver stopped at a traffic light in North Coast Road when three men approached him. Two of the armed men approached him on the driver’s side, while the other got into the passenger seat,” Lt Elvis Naidoo of Greenwood Park SAPS said.
Two hijackers, according to police, managed to get inside the car while a third held a cloth, soaked in a chemical, to the man’s face. When he woke up he was abandoned in Stanger. Naidoo said the victim finally came round on Sunday, 25 May and when made his way home. He was told that he had been drugged by doctors on the same day.
“When the man reported the hijacking to police on the Sunday officers noticed he was still a bit drowsy and not himself. Not only did the hijackers make off with his green Landrover, but they also stole his gun.
“He was sent home and asked to come back to report the crime once he felt better,” Lt Naidoo added.
In another case, a man parked his white Toyota Corolla on a verge in Hyacinth Road on Thursday, 22 May at about 9.50am when two armed men jumped off another car and approached his car.
“The armed men forced the driver to open the car door and pushed him into the backseat of the car, while one of the robbers drove off, with his accomplice in the passenger seat,” police said today.
The hijackers then drove the man’s car and stopped in North Coast Road where they dropped him off. The hijackers also made off with the man’s cellphone and his ID book.
