An early morning breakfast stop for a truck driver nearly turned into an expensive one when his truck full of groceries was hijacked on Monday morning.
However, it was his lucky day as the metro police not only recovered the truck but also all the stolen goods, worth R125 000, in Ivory Park.
Chief Supt Wilfred Kgasago, spokesperson for the metro police, said five suspects, two Ethiopians and three South Africans, had been arrested.
Kgasago said the white Nissan UD80 truck, laden with huge quantities of foodstuffs, left its business premises in Isando early on Monday morning. Along the way, the driver made a stop to get breakfast and his truck was hijacked at gunpoint by an unknown number of assailants.
“At 7.40am the EMPD received information of the hijacked truck and with the assistance of the vehicle tracking system, located the vehicle at 8.20am in Ivory Park with its load missing.
“The last stop of the truck, before where it was found abandoned, was detected. The detected location was a house on Khulani Street in Ivory Park where the officers recovered the stolen groceries and found five men. All five suspects were arrested and detained at Ivory Park Police Station on charges of possession of stolen goods and a hijacked motor vehicle,” Kgasago said.
