A 24-year-old man appeared in Ogies Magistrate’s Court earlier this week for theft of chrome.
The man was arrested by members of the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation together with Transnet at Saaiwater Point in Ogies on Friday, April 16.
The arrest followed an intelligence-driven disruptive operation conducted by the team on allegations of theft of chrome from goods trains.
“The information received was that the suspects wait at a place where the goods train stop at the robot or where drivers change, and they will climb in the goods train with bags and fill the bags with chrome while the train is moving. At the next stop of the goods train, they will off-load the bags full of chrome,” said Captain Dineo Lucy Sekgotodi spokesperson for the Hawks.
The chrome is valued at approximately R40 000.
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