Cape law enforcement cracks down on crime with swift arrests
By ANA Reporter
By Julie Berman
Cape Town - The City of Cape Town has issued more than 83 000 fines and made more than 130 arrests within the past week, it said on Tuesday.
Out of these, traffic officers arrested 71 suspects and impounded 115 vehicles and 47 cell phones. LEAP, or the Law Enforcement Advancement Plan, officers recorded various arrests during the past week.
On Sunday, LEAP officers arrested four suspects allegedly involved in an armed robbery at Cash Crusaders in Hanover Park.
The suspects were charged with armed robbery, illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, possession of a stolen vehicle, and possession of presumed stolen property.
Picture: iStock/ TheCrimsonRibbon
A 40-year-old suspected thief had no idea that the Cash Crusaders employee who attended to him was the rightful owner of the goods he was trying to sell.
The thief gave himself away after he arrived at the store wearing the owner s customised cloth mask written I speak Jesus which was inside a handbag stolen from the property owner.
There are only three of those masks in the whole world, the victim told News24 during an emotional interview on Wednesday.
A suspected thief was caught when he unknowingly tried to sell goods to their rightful owner at a Cash Crusaders pawn shop.
Thief bust trying to sell stolen goods to their owner at Cash Crusaders 26 January 2021 - 11:47 A Cash Crusaders employee in PE immediately recognised some of the items as hers - they had been stolen during a housebreaking in Seaview on December 27. Stock photo. Image: 123rf.com/thawornnurak
A 40-year-old man unknowingly tried to sell stolen property to the rightful owner, who works at a Cash Crusaders in Port Elizabeth.
Eastern Cape police spokesperson Col Priscilla Naidu said the man went to the store at Pier 14 shopping centre in Green Street, North End, at around 2.20pm on Monday.
He wanted to sell a laptop, laptop bag, a 3TB hard drive, laptop charger and a mask with writing on.