NEWSFLASH: Swift action leads to arrest of three CIT robbers
The suspects get-away was short-lived when almost instantaneously the police responded.
National police commissioner General Khehla John Sitole has praised a multi-disciplinary SAPS team in Mamelodi West for the swift arrest of three cash-in-transit (CIT) robbers and the recovery of money and firearms.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said the arrested suspects are aged between 25 and 40.
He said the two armed men were arrested after they robbed two security guards of money boxes containing an undisclosed amount of cash at Denlyn Mall at around 11: 45.
“They confronted the guards as they were approaching their vehicle and threatened them with handguns before fleeing with the money boxes.”
However, the suspects’ getaway was short-lived thanks to the speedy response by the Mamelodi Intervention Task team supported by the local K9 unit and station members.
“The task team intercepted the first two suspects a few streets from the mall and thereafter a third suspect were arrested.”
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Naidoo said further investigations led the team to three different houses where two pistols were found in one house, the money boxes in a second house and the getaway car at a third house.
“The serial numbers on the pistols were filed off, the money boxes were tampered with and the recovered Hyundai sedan was reported hi-jacked in Silverton in April this year.”
Furthermore, since the houses where the incriminating items were found do not belong to any of the suspects, the owners of those houses are now also the subject of criminal investigations.
“I want to applaud all members for the speed with which they acted as well as their dedication to this case,” said General Sitole.
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