iPhone tracked
A man was lucky to have his iPhone returned after police, with the help of an application, tracked the phone to the thief at The Workshop on Saturday.
According to Lieutenant PN Naidoo, the man was at a club in Florida Road installing a TV set and had put his cellphone on the table.
The club was empty during the day with only the barman around. When the man finished working his phone was gone. The barman told him two men had come in and were looking around, one of them wanted water then they left.
“The man activated the tracker and traced his phone then checked the footage which tracked the direction of the phone from Brickfield to Durban.
He called the police for assistance. Members tracked the phone to The Workshop where they stopped and searched a suspect and found the phone in his possession,” said Naidoo.
The man was arrested for theft and detained at Berea SAPS.
Cellphone thief caught red handed
A woman was robbed on Sunday morning.
Lieutenant PN Naidoo said the woman was walking along Old Dutch Road when two men approached her and demanded her cellphone.
“The suspects kept shouting at her and badgering her for her cellphone. As she was about to take it out of her handbag, the one suspect shouted at his partner to leave her alone because the police were coming,”
The suspects let go of the woman just as a police van stopped in front of them. “The suspects fled in different directions and police officers chased after them and caught one suspect,” said Naidoo.
Abandoned house stripped of electrical wires
Berea police responded to a house break-in at a home on Botanic Avenue on Sunday afternoon.
According to Lieutenant PN Naidoo, when the officer got to the home he realised it was a vacant house. He noticed a man with a bucket full of electric wires.
There were also wires hanging out from the wall and ceiling. “It looked like the house was being stripped. The officer asked the man what he was doing there and why he had the wires, he could not give a reasonable explanation, so was arrested,” said Naidoo.
