Crime

NORTH WEST – Two suspects aged 27 and 34 were arrested during a multi- pronged operation by the Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Investigation, Crime Intelligence, K9,Flying squad and Transnet officials on Saturday, 10 July 2020, for tampering with essential infrastructure and theft of diesel worth…

At approximately 3:00am yesterday morning, various disciplines of the South African Police Service followed by members of the South Aftican National Defence Force responded to reports of a shooting and an alleged hostage situation at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in Zuurbekom, a town in…

Zukisa Sibango (28) was slammed with a 20 year sentence by the Atlantis Regional Court for several charges that include amongst others kidnapping and attempted murder last week Friday. Sibango who is serving an unrelated prison sentence at the East London Correction Centre was part…

Gerhardus Janse Van Vuuren (42), Christiaan Janse Van Vuuren (35), Ellton Mostert (40) and Mario Mulanga (40) appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, 03 June 2020, in connection with alleged stolen Transnet railway tracks worth approximately R8 million. The railway tracks were reported…

The long arm of the law has finally caught up with Moses Justice Luthuli (56), and Owen Bruce James (41), following a long drawn out investigation into alleged fraudulent transactions in the Eastern Cape Department of Education amounting to just over three million rand ten…

The multidisciplinary crime combatting operations in Gauteng resulted to the arrest of more than 1430 people over the weekend. These operations forms part of Operation O Kae Molao that is aimed at the tracing and arresting of wanted suspects and combatting of crime in the…

An alleged cash-in-transit alleged robber, Elvis Press Makhubela (41), is expected to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate's Court, tomorrow, Thursday for a judgment on his bail application. Makhubela was traced and arrested when a warrant of arrest was executed on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, an…

Two Chinese nationals aged 43 and 54, are expected to appear in the Cape Town magistrate's Court on Wednesday for charges related to operating an illegal abalone processing facility in Milnerton, Cape Town. The pair was arrested on Monday, 18 May 2020, following an intelligence…

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) acted swiftly on information and intercepted a truck which was en-route to Cape Town carrying a container loaded with cocaine worth over R30.4 million. The truck was intercepted at a petrol station on the…