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Crime report

The following crimes were attended to by Umhlali SAPS last week:

A Samsung TV, laptop and a knife set valued at R305 000 were stolen from a house in Glen Estate on Simbithi drive on Sunday. Burglars broke in through the lounge window.
Another house was burgled on Simbithi Drive. R22 900 worth of goods was stolen from the house in The Highlands estate late on Friday evening.
R150 000 of household items including a TV, computer, jewellery and a case of whiskey were stolen from a holiday home in Beverly Hills on Saturday.
A doctor was assaulted on Sunday at Alberlito hospital while he was on duty.
A police Commander was hijacked on Cemetry Lane in Shakaskraal on Saturday morning. The officer had stopped to help someone near Rocksonic nightclub. When he returned to his vehicle he was grabbed by five men who took his service pistol, car keys, wallet and cellphone and drove away in his bakkie.
A man suffered an eight centimetre laceration on his head after he was hit with a bush knife by another man on Sunday.
While fixing a fence in Nkobongo on Sunday, a man was nearly run over by a car. A man jumped out of the car and assaulted the victim and his friend. They struggled to get away and the man fired a shot into the air. The car then drove off.
A relative of a nine-year-old girl sexually assaulted her at her home. He then gave her R10 to not say anything but she immediately told her mother. The man was arrested.
An inquest is under way after a man was found dead in his home in Shakashead on Thursday. A cup of pills was found next to his body and a black plastic bag was over his head. His girlfriend claimed they had an argument the previous evening.
A woman was raped in Tinley Manor on Thursday. She was busy picking herbs near the cane with her friend when a man approached them armed with a stick and a knife. He attacked the woman and forced her into the nearby cane field and raped her.
Robbers locked a security guard in a bathroom last Tuesday while they broke into an office at Star Contractors on Moffat Drive. The burglars made off with two computers, two monitors, a tool box and cash valued at R23 000.
Umhlali SAPS arrested four people for illegal railway crossing, 24 for drinking in public, five for possession of marijuana, one for disturbing the peace, two for possession of unlicensed firearms, one for reckless driving and five people for drunk driving.
Contact Umhlali SAPS on 032-9479900.

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