According to Metro police spokesperson Superintendent Edna Mamonyane, the driver was arrested when he arrived at an accident scene the following morning.
IOL reported that the theft occurred in the early afternoon.
The camera footage showed that about a minute after the driver left her silver Chevrolet, a tow-truck pulled up next to the car.
The driver got out and left the doors of his white tow-truck open to block the view of bystanders and passing motorists.
It took two minutes for the driver to approach the passenger side of the Chevrolet, break a window with an unidentified object, and steal a laptop and other items that could not be identified on the footage.
The tow-truck was seen on CCTV camera footage five minutes later, at the corner of Bree and Quinn Streets.
According to the report, the tow-truck was seen again, driving from Carr Street into Bree Street, before it left the area covered by the cameras.
Mamonyane said Metro police control room officers spotted the tow-truck before 8am the following morning, at the corner of Marshall and Auret streets.
“Metro police were on scene at the accident. Officers in our control room spotted what they thought was the tow-truck from the previous day’s theft. He had parked at an angle, so the control room asked officers on the scene to confirm the registration number,” she said.
The officers on scene did as requested, and the control room then confirmed the driver was the suspected thief.
“The officers on the scene confronted the driver, who confessed that he had broken into the Chevrolet the previous day. He was then arrested,” said Mamonyane.
The driver has reportedly appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on charges of breaking into a motor vehicle and theft.
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