The police in Kuruman arrested a 34-year-old female and a 52-year-old male for alleged shoplifting in Kuruman on Friday, 7 July.
Sgt Timothy Sam, police spokesperson, said the police responded to a shoplifting complaint at a well-known chain store in Kuruman, and found the identified suspects still wondering around in the parking area of the chain store.
The police approached the vehicle the suspects were traveling with and on searching it found goods that the occupants could not provide proof of purchase for.
This brought a reasonable suspicion of wrong doing by the suspects, said Sam.
The police arrested the suspects and seized the stolen goods, as well as the vehicle used in the commission of a crime, all valued at approximately R184 000.
The male suspect was charged for possession of suspected stolen property and the female suspect for shoplifting.
Both will appear in the Kuruman Magistrate Court soon.
In another unrelated incident, the police in Kathu are investigating a culpable homicide case following an accident that happened in Hendrick Van Eck Road in Kathu on Sunday, 9 July.
Sam said preliminary investigations indicate that two motor vehicles collided. The Kathu Emergency Services declared two male persons, aged 25 years and 45 years old, deceased on the scene.
The investigation continues.
