QUICK action by a reservist police officer led to the recovery of a stolen vehicle filled with paint in the south of Johannesburg.
Police said reservist Constable Jose Lima, while off duty on Friday, identified a stolen red bakkie in Tulisa Park off Paul Kruger drive.
Moffat View spokesperson Constable Mikateko Bila said the incident happened near South Crest.
She said it was Lima’s friend – whom Lima had given a lift to earlier that day – who spotted the red bakkie and pointed it out to him.
The friend told Lima that the red bakkie was the same vehicle that had been stolen from his friend’s garage recently, during a business burglary on Victoria Road in Regents Park. Bila said Lima made a U-turn to chase the vehicle.
“The driver of the red vehicle stopped the vehicle at a Caltex garage and fled on foot,” she said.
Lima chased him but when he got to the garage the culprit had disappeared.
“According to a petrol attendant, the perpetrator got into a white bakkie,” said Bila.
Lima and his friend went back to the red bakkie.
“The vehicle was filled with a lot of paints. The paints were taken to the police station and the owner of the red bakkie was notified,” said the Constable.
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