EMPD officers arrest two alleged hijackers, recover vehicle and three firearms

A blue Hyundai Elantra was hijacked last Tuesday at 12.30pm in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, by two men armed with firearms.

The owner immediately informed his vehicle tracking company and the company relayed the information to the EMPD SWAT Unit.

The SWAT members picked up the movement of the hijacked vehicle in the Germiston CBD.

The arrests took place at 12.50pm at the intersection of Victoria and Keswick streets.

When the EMPD officers managed to get the driver of the vehicle to stop, the two male occupants of the vehicle alighted and tried to escape on foot but were cornered and arrested.

In the recovered Hyundai, three 9mm pistols with four live rounds of ammunition were found.

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On closer inspection one of the pistols was discovered to be a toy gun.

The 9mm Llama and the Walter PPK had their serial numbers tampered with.

Officers suspect that there could have been three perpetrators of the crime as three firearms and three baseball caps were found in the Hyundai.

The arrested pair, aged 35 and 43, were detained at the Germiston Police Station and charged with possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition, as well as possession of a hijacked vehicle.

They were expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court last Wednesday.