According to City Power, the trio was taken into custody on separate occasions, with arrests taking place in Alexandra and Booysens.

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City Power says during the 2022/23 financial year, over 2000 cable theft incidents were recorded, resulting in approximately 278 arrests.

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All four cable theft suspects, who attempted to escape, were reportedly arrested and held at Alberton Police Station.

Three male suspects were arrested by the JMPD Operations officers for the theft of Optical Fibre, south of Johannesburg.

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When questioned, the suspect alleged that he is a City Power subcontractor and he further alluded that his wife is a City Power employee.

Eskom and municipalities remove illegal connections every day, however, they are reconnected within an hour in most cases.

The City of Tshwane said that theft and vandalism played a role in the power outages that residents experienced after the pylons collapsed.

City Power spokesperson says internal disciplinary action will be taken against the employee, and the contractors will be fired.

JMPD has nabbed five suspects, including a City Power official after they tried stealing an electrical transformer in Hillbrow

A report of a theft in progress on Kentucky Drive in Durban North, led to the arrest of a suspect caught stealing copper cables.

Police came upon a group of men loading copper cables and aluminum into a vehicle – they managed to catch one suspect after they fled on foot

Three suspects are behind bars for cable theft at four substations in the east of Johannesburg.

Cable thieves reportedly demaged an electricity pole outside Justice and Correctional Minister Ronald Lamola’s home in Pretoria.

Three suspects were so busy with steaming cables that they didn’t notice police watching them engrossed in their criminal activities

A suspect was apprehended for breaking into a substation in Alberton, instead of being submissive, he fought the arresting officer

Copper thieves almost cost the lives of patients after they stole a 10 metre Intensive Care Unit (ICU) oxygen pipe at Baragwanath

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Two brazen cable thieves were arrested by Metro Police officers in the Durban CBD after a municipal official witnessed the crime.

The City of Tshwane disconnected 800 illegal connections and removed stolen electrical infrastructure worth an estimated R500 000.

A cable thief found with locks from an electricity box and suspect found with car breaking equipment at municipal offices were arrested