Mbombela man found guilty of theft
The man had broken into the Mpumalanga Hawks' offices earlier this year and was found guilty on September 16.
A Lowveld man was recently found guilty of seven counts of housebreaking and theft by the Nelspruit District Court on Friday September 16.
Daniel Wagenaar (32) had appeared in court following accusations that he had broken into the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) offices at Van Ransburg Street in Mbombela on March 6 at 19:00.
A statement by the Mpumalanga Hawks’ spokesperson, Captain Dineo Sekgotodi, said that Mbombela’s Local Criminal Record Centre visited the crime scene and lifted fingerprints following the break-in.
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“During the investigation, Wagenaar was positively linked to the crime scene. It was further established that he had failed to appear in court on March 9, 2022, for two housebreaking and theft cases that occurred in Mbombela between July 2019 and December 2021,” said Sekgotodi.
She said the Mbombela’s Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation team went to court to obtain a warrant for his arrest, and he was traced. He was arrested on March 9 was kept in custody until his conviction.
Wagenaar will appear back in court on October 14 for a pre-sentence report.
