Several robbed by Citi Golf bogus police
Two men pretending to be police officers in a White Citi Golf investigating a robbery have allegedly robbed several people.
Several people have fallen prey to two fake police officers in a white Citi Golf, stopping cars and robbing people.
More people came forward after Rekord’s article on Jacques Denysschen, who was robbed of R6 450 by two men in a white Citi Golf pretending to be police officers. The men told him they were police officers investigating a robbery, and that he wore a jacket similar to one of the robbers.
They asked to check the money he had on him to see if there was blood on it. They took his money pretending to put it in an envelope but gave him back an envelope filled with pieces of newspaper.
Malcom Canary was also robbed in March by two men travelling in a white City Golf, pretending to be police officers. “I was on my way back from Quagga Centre when two men approached me and told me they were investigating a robbery that happened at a nearby store. One of them was wearing a police uniform and the other one casual clothes,” Canary said.
He said he asked the men for their police identity cards but they would not show it. They forced him into their vehicle, took his bank card and pin codes and withdrew and undisclosed amount of money.
“Before I could get back to the bank to stop my cards, they had already withdrew the money. Having a firearm pointed at me, I had to choose between life and money and I chose life.”
Canary said he opened a case at the police station and until now the police are still investigating the case.
Joey De Caires’ husband Derrick was also a victim of the same crime. “Just like Jacques, the two men gave my husband a note that they tore out of a book. They pushed him inside a white Citi Golf and said a bank was robbed and he looks like one of the suspects,” De Caires explained.
She said the men tried to get R5000 from her husband and when he refused, they pushed him into a City Golf.
“They drove off with my husband and forced him to tell them where we live. Luckily when they arrived at our house there were lots of people outside. My husband jumped out of the vehicle and the men drove off,” De Caires said.
She said they managed to get the vehicle’s registration number, which was traced to a place in Hartebeespoort dam.
Police spokesperson, Captain Colette Weilbach said the police are still investigating the case.
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