RECKLESS driving lead police to the arrest of a suspect who allegedly robbed a woman and her nephew in Kenville on Thursday night. When police stopped the car, the hijack victims were still with the alleged hijacker.
According to provincial SAPS, police from Inanda Cluster Task Team arrested a hijacking suspect and recovered a firearm at K Section in KwaMashu. “It is alleged the police officers spotted a vehicle being driven recklessly on the road and instructed the occupants to stop. As they stopped, two suspects alighted and fled on foot into different directions. When police approached the vehicle, there were three occupants including a female inside the vehicle,” said Colonel Thembeka Mbele.
Mbele said initial investigations revealed that a woman and a man were the hijacking victims and the third was a suspect (23) with a firearm in his possession.
“It is alleged that on 28 February 2019 at 6.30pm, a female (32) and her nephew were leaving their home at Hendon Road in Kenville when the suspects hijacked them, at gunpoint, of their vehicle and their valuables including bank cards. The suspects assaulted the victims, forcing them to reveal their bank pin codes. They then withdrew the victims’ cash from the ATM,” said Mbele
A case of carjacking and possession of an unlicensed firearm was opened at the Greenwood Park police station. The suspect will be charged and will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on 4 March 2019. Police investigations are continuing to apprehend the suspects who fled.
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