Two cases of house robberies were opened by the Springs police last week.
At 9.15am, last Sunday a senior citizen went to the kitchen of her house in Tamboti Avenue in Dal Fouche to investigate a noise she heard.
On her way to the kitchen she came across three men.
Two were armed with screwdrivers and another with a crowbar.
They took her into another bedroom and made her sit on the bed.
Springs police spokesman Captain Johannes Ramphora says one robber stayed with her while the other two ransacked the house.
The robbers took the victim’s handbag, a laptop and jewellery.
They locked her up in the bathroom, but she managed to escape after they left and called her son.
The robbers allegedly took goods worth R17 000 from the house.
n Last Monday a family of three arrived at home in Selcourt at 5pm, when they noticed a suspicious vehicle with three occupants stopping behind their vehicle.
One armed man approached the driver and ordered her to get out of the vehicle.
Ramphora says she begged the robber to remove her baby from the car.
The robber directed mother and baby to the house, while another armed man pointed a gun at her husband in the passenger seat.
The robber asked the woman for firearms, but the family has no weapons.
In the house the robber ordered her to lie on the bedroom floor while another robber was in the lounge with her husband.
They took the victim’s jewellery.
A third robber entered the house and went to a bedroom where he found the victim’s mother.
He pointed a firearm at her and took her laptop.
The took two TVs, two cell phones, a laptop, camera, an ice machine, a Wii, cash and jewellery.
The victims watched them loading the stolen goods into the family’s BMW before they drove off in both vehicles.
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information can contact the Springs police on 011 365 5700/19.
