Four suspects wanted for robbery at Belfast Traffic Department. Image: Flickr
Cape Town: CIT robbery suspect hands himself over to the Hawks
A cash-in-transit (CIT) robbery suspect called his lawyer before they went over to the Hawks to ask for his arrest in Cape Town.
Four suspects wanted for robbery at Belfast Traffic Department. Image: Flickr
Western Cape Hawks arrested a 37-year-old CIT robbery suspect after he handed himself over in Cape Town on Tuesday 5 January, following a failed heist in Zwelethemba, Worcester in December.
CIT ROBBERY SUSPECT WALKS HIMSELF INTO POLICE HANDCUFFS
According to the given details, the suspect ended up in police cells after he was allegedly involved in a flopped robbery of a grocery store in Worcester’s Zwelethemba.
The incident took place on 3 December when a G4S security official was attacked by two armed men while coming out of a store with massive cash money.
According to the Hawks’ spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Philani Nkwalase, the armed assailants disarmed the G4S official before grabbing the cross-pavement-carrier (CPC) box that had been activated and disappeared from the scene in a getaway car.
“The driver of the armoured vehicle pursued the silver Suzuki getaway vehicle which was later found abandoned in Ntlakohlokaza Street in Zwelethemba,” Nkwalase said as quoted by News24.
Furthermore, the CPC box with stained cash was recovered from the vehicle. Nkwalase added to say the suspect was linked to the CIT robbery. His home was searched on 30 December but he was not on the premises.
Meanwhile, the suspect will appear in the Worcester Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
COPS ARREST SIX SUSPECTS WITH ALLEGED CIT ROBBERY CARS
In a closely related event, Gauteng police handcuffed six suspects with high-performance cars linked to cash-in-transit (CIT) robberies.
According to the report from the South African Police Service (SAPS), the recovered vehicles were previously reported stolen. Additionally, the cops believe the cars may have been used in CIT robberies and other serious criminal offenses in the province.
The report says four suspects were handcuffed in Oaklands, Johannesburg, while two others were arrested in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on Monday.
“Police received information through crime intelligence about a safe house in Oaklands where there are high-performance vehicles and suspects that might be involved in cash-in-transit robberies,” Police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo said as quoted by TimesLIVE.
