Copper cable valued at about R2 000 was seized from a man in the central business district.

On the morning of January 25, Estcourt Visible Policing members found the 33-year-old man in possession of the cables.

“The outer casing of the cable had been burnt off. Police are trying to determine where the copper cable may have been stolen from,” said police spokesperson Warrant Officer Basheer Khan.

The man appeared in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on January 26 where he faces charges of being in possession of suspected stolen property.