Stolen vehicles and unlicensed firearm recovered in Tshwane
An investigation is underway for the apprehension of other possible suspects.
Gauteng police recovered three reportedly stolen vehicles in two separate incidents and an illegal firearm in Tshwane on the weekend.
This comes as Gauteng Highway Patrol (HP) unit this past weekend arrested three suspects as part of their weekend operations.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said, “the HP team was conducting a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) operation next to Mabena traffic circle in Mamelodi on Saturday, stopped and searched a white Toyota Etios and its three occupants.
“The members found a firearm with serial numbers filed off as well as live rounds of ammunition in the vehicle.”
Mathapelo said that led to the arrest of three suspects for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
“In the second incident, the HP team patrolling the R21 on the same Saturday responded to information of a stolen Renault Sandero travelling between Brakpan and Tembisa.”
She said police tracked and found the vehicle abandoned on Kenya Street in Tembisa.
An investigation was underway towards the apprehension of the suspects, she added.
Mathapelo said on the same day a different HP team working on the R80 responded to information of a stolen Renault Sandero and tracked the vehicle which they found abandoned in Winterveldt, Tshwane.
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