THREE armed robberies occurred within the space of two hours in Durban North and uMhlanga on Friday night. All three of the incidents involved a gang of five suspects but it is unclear whether the incidents were related. In the first incident five suspects held up an uMhlanga resident in a house robbery on Friday evening. According to Kyle van Reenen of Marshall Security, the robbery occurred on Herrwood Drive.
The armed robbery was one of three last night in the north Durban area.
“The suspects forced open the main driveway gates and the front door of the property. The homeowner was at home at the time and was held up at gunpoint by one of the suspects. The house was ransacked and the suspects made off with a plasma TV and jewellery,” he said.
In the second incident, in Durban North on Friday night, an elderly woman and her caregiver were lucky to escape a home invasion unharmed when a gang of armed robbers stormed into a property on Grosvenor Crescent.
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Blue Security community and media liaison officer Andreas Mathios said five armed robbers forced open a pedestrian gate to gain entry onto the property.
“The gang arrived at the property in a gold VW Polo at around 7.55pm. They then forced open the front door and ransacked the house. The elderly resident and her caregiver were both at home and managed to get to safety and lock themselves in one of the bedrooms,” Mathios said.
“The suspects fled with a television, a computer and a printer. One of our officers responded to the scene and gave chase but the suspects fled towards Chris Hani (North Coast Road) and managed to evade arrest. Fortunately the resident and her caregiver were unharmed,” Mathios said.
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In the final incident, in a modus operandi, similar to Herrwood Drive, five suspects, one of whom was armed held up a homeowner on Milkwood Drive.
It’s believed the suspects made off with an undisclosed amount of jewellery and fled in an old sedan shape vehicle.
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