Eight perpetrators were brought to book by the Milnerton police on Wednesday 7 March in connection with a business robbery which happened earlier that morning.
Police provincial spokesperson, Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana, says the robbery happened at around 00:45 at a petrol station in Milnerton.
“According to reports, a white Toyota Quantum entered the garage forecourt to fill up with petrol. While attending to the Toyota Quantum the petrol attendant got a surprise when one of the suspects pointed a firearm at him while others, wearing balaclavas and wielding a large knife and a crowbar, threatened him and followed him to the garage shop.”
She says that inside the garage shop, seven suspects aged between 24 and 44 years demanded the keys to the safe and then removed the safe mounted in the floor.
“They fled the scene. Detectives followed up on clues and managed to trace the owner of the Toyota Quantum. This led the investigation team to the first suspect, who was the driver.”
Rwexana says further investigation led to the arrest of seven other suspects, some of whom were arrested while they were grinding the steel safe in Joe Slovo, Milnerton.
“The suspects are facing charges of business robbery and possession of stolen property.”
The police recovered two steel safes with an undisclosed amount of money, a computer box, a backpack with cigarettes and lighters, grinders and two black toy guns.
All suspects are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Friday 9 March 2018.
The provincial commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Jula, praised the officers who brought the perpetrators of this serious and violent crime to justice.
