ALKMAAR – Crimefighters’s quick reaction to information received from the community lead to the arrest of two suspects that are possibly linked to the attack on a local family last week.
The two men were arrested on Tuesday by members of Bossies Community Justice (BCJ). Mr Jacques Meiring, operational manager at BCJ confirmed the arrests. “We had received some information from community members regarding two unknown men that had been seen in the area.”
Meiring explained that they already had a good description of the two suspects involved in the crime. “The victims could give us quite a bit of information regarding their attackers, like their build, facial features and also the languages they spoke.”
He added that according to the Alkmaar family that were robbed, one of the suspects had spoken in English while the other one often spoke in Afrikaans.
Two men that fitted these descriptions were spotted in the area and after some leads were followed up by Meiring’s team they managed to apprehend them. Both of them are Mozambican immigrants, of which one man is illegally in South Africa.
Meiring said when they detained the men they were asked in Portuguese if they speak Afrikaans or English but both men denied they could speak either language. “But on the way to the police station one of the men spoke in fluent Afrikaans, I don’t think he was meaning to and that it slipped out.”
When confronted with this on arrival at the station the man however once again denied being able to speak this language. Meiring said that both suspects’ foot size fit the tracks found at the robbery scene last week.
“The police confirmed that they are investigating further,” he told Lowvelder.
