A local spaza shop owner has been arrested after a police investigation concluded that he unlawfully possessed a firearm.
The 24-year-old man was arrested at 2.30pm on 10 January. At 10.30am that day, he alleged that three suspects had arrived at his shop just after he and his brother had bought new stock and had brought it in.
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He told the police that two of the suspects held him and his brother at knife-point, while the other person searched them. Later the suspects took cash, airtime vouchers and cartons of cigarettes, the owner said. He explained that they fired some shots as they exited the shop and left in their white double-cab bakkie.
A search for the white double-cab and the three suspects was launched.
But while investigating, the police learned that the shop owner was in possession of a firearm and that he was the one who fired the shots at the suspects. He later confessed and handed over the firearm to the police.
A case of unlawful possession of a firearm has been opened against the Bangladeshi man.
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