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Five in court for theft of copper worth R1.9 million Updated
Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile
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Five suspects have appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate Court on Friday on charges of possession of suspected stolen copper worth R1.9 million.
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The Hawk s Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said the arrest came after a tip-off that the suspects were delivering copper wire at a scrapyard in Hercules in Tshwane. Police intercepted a truck fitting the description at the identified scrapyard in Hercules loaded with suspected stolen copper weighing about 3.840kg. Further investigation led the investigation team to a plot in Heatherderdale near Akasia where they recovered 1830 meter long copper wires also suspected to have been stolen, said Mulamu