Homeowner tackles gate-motor thief

Yesterday (29 August) at about 2pm a Lindhaven resident received a call from his mother about a man at their gate who claimed to have come to fix the gate motor.

The resident told her to hide and he rushed back home from his workplace in Soweto. On his arrival he found an unknown white male busy stripping his gate motor.

When he asked him what he was doing at his gate, the suspect tried to run away. He gave chase, tackled and stopped the suspect in his tracks. Community members also came to his aid and called the police.

The suspect, aged 26, was arrested and detained at Roodepoort Police Station.

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