MEC MORWENG WELCOME THE ARREST OF 4 SUSPECTS WHO STOLE NEW CARS FROM DEALERSHIP IN ZEERUST

North West MEC for Community Safety and Transport Management Wessels Morweng is encouraged by tiredless efforts by the Police, Gauteng Airwing Highway patrol and Traffic North West Eagles by managing in apprehending four suspects who were part of syndicate that stole three news Ford Rangers from Car dealership in Zeerust early Monday morning.

According to the information, during early morning hours of Monday (2025/04/07), a business breaking was committed by unknown suspects from Gauteng whereby three (3) brand new Ford Ranger Double Cab bakkies were stolen.

It was during a combined effort between the above-mentioned role players that the location of the stolen bakkies were obtained while enroute to Gauteng.

Response Vehicles and Airwing were activated, which led to the recovery of three stolen bakkies and successful arrest of four suspects in different areas as the bakkies went into complete different directions.

MEC Morweng has sent a strong message to criminals who still think that they can come to North West and do as they pleases.

“Our men and women in blue with Eagles traffic team are working day and night to make sure that criminals are flushed out and the car syndicate that have been brewing and thinking that our province is a play ground, your days are numbered.

As I have made a call to the community members to work together, we can reduce the crime and make our province more safer to anybody who stays here or want to tour our province.

We have to make sure that our province is user friendly and nobody can invest in crime environment hence we are out there to deal with criminals,” concluded MEC Morweng.

The suspects were arrested at different locations being Koster,Tarlton and Randfontein for possession of stolen property and will be linked to the original case of Business Breaking and Theft of vehicles at Zeerust.

Police investigations are still ongoing to find out if there are more people involved in the syndicate.
The total value of the recovered cars is estimated at 1.8 million rands.

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