The complainant, who requested not to be named, had her iPhone stolen from her handbag on 25 October.
Sergeant Peter Mpofu and Constable Maliyakhe Nzama from Parkview Police Station were doing routine patrols when they received a call from the station to assist. They then drove around with the complainant who used the application “Find my iPhone” to track the stolen phone through an iPad tablet.
They followed the active signal indicated in the application and drove down Jan Smuts Avenue towards the Central Business District.
The officers arrived at the taxi tank on Bree street and spotted two males exchanging what appeared to be a cellphone. When the two individuals were searched, the phone was recovered and identified by the complainant.
The complainant expressed a positive opinion of the police men who assisted her, “My phone was stolen at around 1.15pm. I arrived at the Parkview Police Station at 2.30pm and by 3pm we found it,” she said.
The suspects are both Nigerian nationals aged 27 and 35. They were immediately arrested and detained and appeared at the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court on 28 October to answer to charges of theft as well as possession of stolen property.
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