The formation of the District Stock Theft Task Team is beginning to show positive results in the OR Tambo District, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS).<\/p>\n
This follows the arrest of two men for their suspected involvement in stock theft on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, at around 01:00, members from the task team operationalised intelligence information.<\/p>\n
A homestead in Blackhill was searched, where a 37-year-old man was found in possession of nine sheep. The suspect alleged that he exchanged his two horses for the sheep.<\/p>\n
Police followed up on the information and were led to a homestead in Mjikelweni, where they interviewed a 21-year-old man who denied knowledge of such an exchange.<\/p>\n
The police found the second man in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. He was charged for being in possession of unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old man was charged for being in possession of suspected stolen property. A firearm with no serial number was confiscated and the sheep were taken to the nearest municipal pound for investigation.<\/p>\n
Both suspects are due to appear in the Qumbu Magistrate’s Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
OR Tambo District Commissioner, Major General Norman Modishana, has applauded the task team for their excellent work in fighting stock theft in the district.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge farmers, especially in areas that are known as hotspot areas to work closely with the Task Team,” Modishana said. \u2013\u00a0SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The formation of the District Stock Theft Task Team is beginning to show positive results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}