Licensing station harassment leads to death
A woman died after she was harassed at the Florida Licensing Department.
The criminal element’s harassment of visitors outside Florida Licensing Station has recently tragically lead to the death of a woman.
Anna and Hendrick Roos visited the station in order to renew his driver’s license when two men approached him and convinced him to pay them a fee in order to jump the queue. He allegedly agreed but a short while after the man left he returned and asked for more money.
Roos said he wanted to go into the station to sort out the problem and the man suggested his wife stays in the car while his friend looks after her. Roos did not want this and his wife followed him inside.
Suddenly he heard her scream and when he turned around he saw the friend robbing her of her valuables. Both men ran away.
Roos’s wife passed away in hospital two weeks later due to the fact that doctors could not operate on her. She allegedly succumbed to kidney failure.
The Record asked JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minnaar whether it was not time a Metro Police officer was posted outside. Minnaar said a security guard will soon be appointed. He also advised visitors to go prepared and not make use of the ‘services’ outside or to engage with strangers.
