The Community Crime Prevention Organisation (CCPO) apprehended a housebreaker on Tuesday morning, 24 January after he broke into an Acutt Road premises.
According to CCPO committee member, George Snodey, they received a call regarding a housebreaking at about 5am.
“The CCPO and Blue Security responded and it wasn’t long before a Blue Security officer found a man walking in the area, but without any property on him,” said Snodey.
His body language aroused the officer’s suspicions and he stopped to question him.
CCPO and Blue Security patrol officer, Mbuyiselo ‘Triple M’ Mdunjane and the CCPO’s Wayne Smerdon who had also responded, questioned him regarding the housebreaking.
After 20 minutes of questioning, he took them back to a nearby bush where he had concealed the stolen items. He was taken to Toti SAPS, along with his ill-gotten gains, and arrested.
On Saturday, 21 January robbers broke into a Dingwall Road residence at about 9am. The elderly resident was tied up and subjected to a brutal beating. The intruders tried to strangle him and he sustained a minor knife wound.
They loaded a TV, alcohol and other items in the resident’s vehicle.
“As they were leaving, a Blue Security response vehicle arrived and blocked them in. The robbers abandoned the vehicle and escaped on foot,” said Snodey.
On Thursday, 19 January a local resident called the CCPO to say he had been watching a man walking on the railway line between Doonside and Warner Beach carrying a weedeater. The man had disappeared near the Warner Beach station and reappeared minus the weedeater.
He was apprehended near Victory Spar and questioned regarding the item he had been carrying.
“After his denials, he eventually took us back to the station where Triple M, his crewman and myself managed to get him to show us where he had concealed it,” said Snodey.
The man was loaded in the vehicle and on the way back to Doonside, he pointed out his partner in crime.
“He was also loaded up and after some questioning, took us to a drain in between Doonside and Warner Beach where they had concealed an aluminium ladder.
He then took us to a house on the corner of School Road and Kingsway. The owner, who was not at home, was unaware the items had been stolen from her shed the night before.” Both men and the property were taken to Toti SAPS.
In a separate incident earlier that day, a house was broken into in Cloete Road in Amanzimtoti where a laptop was stolen.
“Later that morning, a man from Felikisi managed to get information off the laptop and called the resident to say it was in his house and his brother must have stolen it, but the owner needs to come quickly as his brother was still sleeping and when he wakes up will go sell it,” said Snodey.
The owner called the CCPO and Triple M and Snodey were joined on their way to retrieve it by ET Rapid Response’s Ashley Naidoo and an SAPS member who had heard the radio communication.
On arrival at the property, the man was found inside the lounge with the laptop in his hands. He was arrested and taken to Toti SAPS.
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