Duduza – EMPD First Respond Unit Officers patrolling the Tsakane area recovered an abandoned Toyota Hilux double-cab (LDV) in the parking area of the Tsakane Mall on Modjadji Road on Thursday.
EMPD acting spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng says the eye-hawked officers noticed the vehicles-tracker SAPS chopper/helicopter hovering above and around the shopping complex.
“This was before we received a notice through our two-way radio to be on the lookout for the stolen white Toyota Hilux.
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“The officers drove into the mall where the parked light delivery vehicle was spotted.
“The witnesses at the scene said when the three occupants saw an EMPD branded vehicle closing in, they ran and abandoned the vehicle.
“They
left behind the double-cab with the signal jammer on the front passenger seat,” she says.
Mokheseng added that the recovered vehicle with damaged ignition was booked at the Tsakane police station.
“It will later be towed to SAPS Van Ryn Deep pound in Benoni for safekeeping and for further investigations,” he says.
