Ivory Park detectives have, on April 9, arrested a 22-year-old man for alleged possession of stolen stationery belonging to a local primary school.
The suspect, who sells stationery in Ivory Park Extension Three, was arrested after he allegedly sold a glue stick to a local woman whose child is a learner at Ebomini Primary School.
Capt Bernard Matimulane said it was confirmed that the glue and other stationery items were stolen at Ebomini Primary.
“When the parent brought the glue to school on behalf of her child, a teacher was able to immediately identify it as one of the items stolen from the school this year. Ebomini Primary has been broken into at least three times since the beginning of this year,” said Matimulane.
Once it was followed up with the parent the police were called, they visited the suspect at his trading place and that was where hundreds of items, such as pens, erasers, crayons, glue, identified as some of the items stolen, were found.
The station commander of the Ivory Park SAPS, Brig David Mbongeni Ngcobo, has commended the police for the job well done.
He said: “Burglaries and robberies at our schools rob our children of their much-deserved education and this arrest will definitely remind all who are involved in these crimes that the long arm of the law will always catch up with them.”
Ngcobo further encouraged the local community to refrain from buying suspicious-looking property and to alert the police in instances where they suspect items for sale may have been stolen.
The suspect will be appearing in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court soon for of break-in and possession of stolen property.
