Theft rife around Komani

LAST Tuesday night a Red Guard response officer on patrol noticed a suspicious-looking person jumping over the fence of a house in Sandringham.

The owner was phoned and said she was out of town and had not armed her house alarm, operations manager Willie Reynecke told The Rep. The response officer found there had been a break-in at the house and recovered all the stolen goods, but could not apprehend the suspect.

On Wednesday afternoon the security officer on duty at the Dumpy Adams Stadium apprehended a suspect who had stolen a cell phone.

The stolen phone was recovered and returned to the owner and the suspect handed over to the police. Late that night the guarding supervisor visiting sites in Queendustria noticed a big hole in the perimeter fence of a business.

Response officers were dispatched and managed to recover four truck tyres which had been removed from vehicles parked at the site. The tyres were recovered and returned but the perpetrators could not be apprehended.

An alert patrol officer noticed a person walking with four hubcaps on Thursday afternoon.

It was established that the hubcaps had been stolen from a vehicle belonging to a staff member at the department of sport, recreation, arts and culture who declined to open a case because the hubcaps were returned.

On Saturday night, response officers attended to an alarm at an engineering firm where they apprehended a suspect breaking in. The manager declined to open a case and the suspect was released.

In the early hours of Sunday morning response officers attended to an alarm at a store in Tylden Street where they apprehended a suspect behind the building.

Another fell to his death from the roof where they were breaking in. The apprehended man was handed over to the police. –Rep reporter