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Pretoria lawyer arrested by Middelburg Stock Theft Unit

Farmers believe that a battle was won in the war against stock theft when twelve people, one of them a lawyer, were arrested.

May 8, 2019

Jana Boshoff 1 minute read

The arrests were effected by the Middelburg Stock Theft Unit, together with ACSU Security and famers, after information was received.

During the operation, three cattle trucks, two loaded with cattle and one busy loading, were discovered in the Breyten area. Altogether 122 cattle were already loaded onto the trucks, while 57 cattle were ready to be loaded and more cattle were being chased into a kraal.

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Brig. Leonard Hlathi, police spokesperson, said that a 32 year-old lawyer as well as another man was arrested on the scene. Several suspects ran away. Police also confiscated a Toyota Hilux bakkie and R95 000 cash on the scene.

One of three trucks transporting the stolen cattle.

Futher investigations resulted in the arrest of ten more suspects, whom police believe supplied the stolen cattle.

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Brig. Hlathi also said that two men and a woman, who looked after the cattle, were tied up and held up during the cattle theft.

Ten other suspects were later taken into custody.

The suspects will appear in court tomorrow and will face charges of stock theft and the possession of stolen property. Their names cannot be made public before their court appearance.

Cattle worth more than half a million Rand were recently stolen on one night from a farmer in Hendrina.
Although the police report says that the two men originally arrested are father and son, www.mobserver.co.za received credible information that they are not related.