On 15 April 2024, at approximately 05h00, the Marshall Security Emergency Dispatch Centre received a call from a client residing on Chicks Drive in Umgeni Park area reporting a house breaking which occurred during the course of the early parts of the morning.
Armed Response Officers were immediately dispatched and it was established that two Apple MacBooks, a Canon camera, shoes, and a handbag had been stolen.
During investigations at approximately 08h00 working together with the assistance of Greenwood Park SAPS Trio Crimes Unit acting on information received members identified a suspect carrying a backpack walking on North Coast Road in the Brairdene area. Members stopped the suspect and conducted a search during which they discovered and identified the stolen two Apple MacBooks and Canon camera which were positively identified as the items stolen from the house breaking. Upon questioning the suspect how he came to be in possession of these items, the suspect revealed that he received them from an individual in the Briardene Informal Settlement and offered to lead members to him.
Acting on this information, members proceeded to the location indicated by the suspect. Following their investigation at the premises, they managed to apprehend another suspect who was found in possession of the remaining stolen items from the house breaking. A further search of the informal dwelling yielded in recovering a laptop and an iPad, which the suspect could not account for.
Both suspects were transported to Greenwood Park SAPS for further processing and investigations.
Well done to our team members yet another successful arrest, working together with SAPS, and making the community a safer place for all.
