JEWELLERY was the target of armed gangs in two separate robberies reported on Thursday. In the first incident an Avoca Hills residents was accosted by three men in her home while a second gang of three suspects targeted a woman a store on Effingham Road.
According to Greenwood Park SAPS spokesman, W/O Leon Audh, the Avoca Hills resident heard a loud noise in her kitchen at around 1pm. When she went to investigate the noise, the three men confronted her in the passage where they forced her to lie on the floor and covered her face with a blanket. The men reportedly stripped her of her jewellery and demanded to know where the safe was, before ransacking the house.
They fled the scene in a blue Toyota Corolla after a neighbour’s alarm disturbed them. Later that evening at around 7pm a business owner on Effingham Road heard a scream in his premises. Upon inspection he discovered an armed suspect robbing a customer of their jewellery.
“He further alleged that there were three more armed suspects in the shop and they demanded his cell phone. The perpetrators then managed to flee the scene in a white VW Polo with the jewels, cell phone and an undisclosed amount of cash,” said Audh. He added that police are hot on the heels of the perpetrators and that they ‘positive arrests will be made soon’. Locals were stripped of their jewellery during two separate robberies on Thursday.
