Metro police recover hijacked truck, clamp down on drug dealing
“They were found with heroin estimated at a street value of R12 500.”
The Tshwane metro police (TMPD) officers have recovered a hijacked truck in Bronkhorstspruit after conducting patrols on the R25 on Wednesday.
In a statement, the TMPD said officers came across the truck driver who alerted them that his truck had just been hijacked by four males driving two vehicles.
“The TMPD officers pursued the suspects in the direction provided by the hijacked truck driver,” it said.
The metro police said it also received assistance from the truck’s tracking company.
The officers pursued the truck until they found it abandoned on the R104.
“The suspects were not found. The truck was recovered with all its cargo.”
In a separate incident, the TMPD drug unit members arrested two alleged drug dealers on Wednesday.
It said two of the suspects were arrested in a joint operation with crime intelligence in Mamelodi, after being traced while making alleged drug deliveries.
“They were found with heroin estimated at a street value of R12 500.”
While another arrest was successfully concluded after a man was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm and dagga with an estimated street value of R10 000 in Atteridgeville.
The TMPD said its cable theft unit arrested two people following a complaint over cable theft in progress in Ben Swart Avenue.
“Another suspect was arrested in Pretoria West when he was caught busy stripping off stolen electricity wires. Both suspects were illegal immigrants, they were charged with damaging and tampering with essential infrastructure.”
Members of the public can report cable theft via 012 358 1550 or at the client service centre in Gezina, SANAB Building, corner of Frederika and Johan Heyns Street.
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