Beer stolen in brazen N2 robbery

A SOUTH African Breweries truck was hijacked and 17 pallets of beer were stolen in a daring early morning heist on the N2 outside Port Elizabeth yesterday.

According to police, the hijacking happened shortly before 7am about 10km from the Baywest Mall.

Police spokeswoman Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the truck had been loaded with 17 pallets of beer to be delivered to a bottle store in Patensie.

“A silver Toyota with a blue light in the windscreen flashed them to pull over,” she said.

“The truck driver assumed it was a police car and complied. The driver got out and walked towards the back of the truck where the Toyota had stopped.”

Janse van Rensburg said that as the driver approached four men, two armed with firearms, had got out of the car and charged at him.

“He attempted to run to the front of the truck. The suspects, however, held him up at gunpoint,” she said.

“The passenger inside the truck was also confronted.

“Both were marched to the car, where the driver was placed in the boot and his assistant in the car.

“The suspects then drove off with them, as well as the truck.”

The driver and his assistant were later dropped in Deal Party and the truck was recovered in Bethesldorp.