Two suspects were arrested after they tried to rob a Pre-primary School in Roosevelt Park for the second time.
Manager and teacher at the school said on 26 April an old man visited the school. He pretended to have asthma and claimed he had a child he wanted to enrol at the school. She added that she recognised his face from their last encounter about three months ago.
“The last time he came here he said the same thing and also asked for a glass of water,” she said. When she left to get him a glass of water upon her return she discovered that he had taken her cellphone and purse.
This time, she made sure she would not be taken advantage of again. After she made sure that the children at the school were secured in a classroom she called Suburban Control Centre to apprehend the suspect. The old man was accompanied by a younger man who was seated in a getaway car.
“… it did not take long for the security company to respond to my call and they were there in a few minutes. They are usually parked on the street across from the school,” she said.
She added that the children were not aware what was happening.
Captain Walter Spencer of Linden Police Station confirmed that a case of theft had been opened at the station. He added that in a separate incident the same suspects had robbed another pre-primary in Sophiatown three months ago.
“We arrested them for a Linden case of theft that happened in January and also for Sophiatown pre-primary that happened the same month, both were theft cases,” said Spencer.
The teacher concluded that she felt liberated after she managed to help in the apprehension of these two suspects.”We feel empowered and free that we managed to rid the streets of people like these.”
