DURBAN North SAPS are looking for a gang of seven men who robbed a homeowner of his vehicle and ransacked his home in an armed robbery on Saturday. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon on Gleneagles Drive. Blue Security community and media liaison officer Andreas Mathios said the couple pulled into their driveway at around 9.30pm when the seven suspects, two of them armed with firearms, held them up.
The gang arrived in a white Mercedes ML.
“The seven suspects ambushed the resident as he opened the garage door, grabbing his keys, wallet, driver’s license and cash. They forced his wife out of the vehicle and pushed her away from it. They then proceeded to kick down the front door of the house where they grabbed a flat screen television and loaded it into the resident’s vehicle and fled the scene. An elderly relative who was inside the house at the time of the robbery was severely traumatised by the incident,” Mathios said.
According to Capt Raymond Deokaran, spokesman for the Durban North station, the vehicle was later recovered.
“The men made off with the new VW Amarok, which had yet to be fitted with number plates. Thankfully the vehicle was later recovered at Pine Parkade in Durban central,” he said.
The armed home invasion was the fifth reported in the last eight days in the north Durban area. Two of the most serious incidents occurred on Thursday last week where a Sunningdale homeowner was stabbed five times by a suspect in a robbery. A few hours later an 81-year-old man was pistol whipped by armed suspects in a robbery on Edgeley Road.
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