The director of a Spartan company briefly appeared in Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday after copper cable belonging to The City of Ekurhuleni was found on the company’s premises on Forge Road.
Copper and aluminum cable, over 500m long and valued at about R170 000, was discovered on the premises by the metro police on Friday night.
Chief Supt Wilfred Kgasago, spokesperson for Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department, said the EMPD anti-cable theft unit received a tip-off about rolls of cable belonging to the metro stored at the premises.
“Following investigations and verification of the information received, members, armed with a search warrant, went to the company around 9.30pm. An off-cut of a 185mm four-core aluminum cable, 300m in length, another off-cut of a 185mm three-core copper cable 150m long, as well as one drum of 70mm four-core copper cable, 134m long, were uncovered,” Kgasago said.
“Given that energy regulations debar cables belonging to the metro to be stored at any other premises other than council’s, a 42-year-old company director was locked up at Kempton Park Police Station on a charge of possession of suspected stolen council cable.”
