Bringing a toy gun to a robbery – Knives out to prosecute, say cops
Zita Goldswain
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The suspect searched the tuck shop owner and took an undisclosed amount of money from the complainant and some loose cigarettes and fled the scene.
Two men appeared in Witbank Magistrate’s Court earlier this week for armed robbery. The two suspects, aged between 32 and 19, appeared before Witbank Magistrate’s Court on January 25.
One of the suspects is facing a charge of robbery with a firearm and the other one possession of an unlicensed firearm.
Police arrested the two men after a tuck shop owner was robbed on January 23 at Phase 1 in Hlalanikahle. The complainant alleged that he was inside his tuck shop when he was approached by a man he knows who suddenly pointed him with a firearm and demanded some cash.