2 luxe vehicles hijacked
SWIFT reaction by members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) has led to the recovery of a luxurious Jaguar F-Pace SUV, which had been hijacked last week during the robbery of a woman at a house in the Birch Acres suburb in Kempton Park.
EMPD spokesperson Constable Marie Mashishi said a woman was accosted in her yard by around seven armed robbers, who got away with a white Porsche Macan SUV, which she was driving, and a grey Jaguar F-Pace, which was parked in the yard.
“On Wednesday at around 7.30 in the morning, members of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department’s Edenvale Precinct recovered a luxury motor vehicle hijacked at gunpoint in the Kempton Park area,” Mashishi said.
“The officers received information from the Johannesburg SAPS regarding two motor vehicles – a grey Jaguar F-Pace SUV and a white Porsche Macan SUV, that were both reported hijacked earlier that morning in Birch Acres, Kempton Park.”
EMPD said the woman, in her forties, arrived at her home after dropping off her children at school. She was ambushed by a group of seven armed men who had been waiting inside the yard.
“The hijackers forcefully took the Porsche, as well as the Jaguar parked in the yard, and fled,” said Mashishi.
“After receiving live co-ordinates of the vehicle from the tracking company, the officers followed the signal to an address on the corner of Piet-MyVrou Avenue and Watertrapel Street at Birch Acres in Kempton Park.
“On arrival, a vehicle matching the description given by the victim was discovered abandoned on the side of the road, with the keys still in the ignition.
“Members arranged for the vehicle (the Jaguar F-Pace) to be towed to Van Rhyn Deep police yard in Benoni for safe-keeping.”
The search is still ongoing for the Porsche Macan SUV, and cases of theft and hijacking have been registered at the Kempton Park police station.
“No arrests have been made, and the investigations are under way,” said Mashishi.