The arresting officer said in a statement that he was patrolling on the corner Le Roux Avenue and Bekker Road at around 5pm on 7 May when he spotted the man.
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“The man drove through a red robot, on Le Roux, which is what alerted the officer to him,” said Constable Matome Tlamela, head of communications at the station.
As the man’s blue Toyota Condor sped through the robot, the officer switched on his blue lights and siren. The vehicle stopped about 200m from the intersection where a man got out of the vehicle and ran towards the officer’s patrol car. “As he was running, he kept saying ‘sorry my brother’,” said Tlamela.
When the man reached the police car, he tried to hand the officer R20.
The officer got out of his car and asked the man for his driver’s license, to which he responded that he did not have one.
“The man was immediately arrested and is facing charges of driving without a license and bribery.”
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