Police stopping for a snack leads to four arrests
Two of the suspects caught in veld.
Four suspects were arrested yesterday when police officers stopped to buy yogurt.
The officers from the K9-unit and the Tactical Response Unit (TRU) stopped at a business close to Hamberg Road to buy yogurt when they noticed a suspicious looking minibus. Realising it could be the suspects that were involved in a business robbery that took place close by, they stopped the vehicle. They arrested two of the suspects on the spot and two more in a veld where they fled to. A firearm was found in the vehicle.
The suspects are facing charges of armed business robbery.
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