Die inbreker het in die kas weggekruip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Gewapendereaksiebeampte het Vrydag 16 September in die donker oggendure s\u00f3 blitsig op \u2019n alarm gereageer dat die boosdoener nie kans gehad het om uit die winkel, waar hy ingebreek het, te vlug nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Riaan van Tonder, takbestuurder van die plaaslike gewapendereaksie-maatskappy Fidelity ADT Weskus, was Max Afrika, een van sy beamptes, in St. Helenabaai toe \u2019n alarm by Mercury Electrical in die dorp geaktiveer is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afrika het hom dadelik na die betrokke winkel gehaas, waar hy gesien het alles is nie pluis nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het gesien die plafon van die badkamer is beskadig en hy het vermoed die inbreker is nog in die winkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van Tonder s\u00ea Afrika het toe die beheerkamer gevra om die polisie en die eienaar van die winkel in kennis te stel en op die perseel vir die polisie gewag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Konstabel van die St. Helenabaai-polisie en die eienaar van die winkel, Elizmay Smith, en haar verloofde, Vincent Vorster, het aangekom en hulle het saam die gebou binnegegaan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle het gesien alles in die winkel is omgekeer en uitgegooi, en omdat Afrika so gou op die toneel was, het hulle vermoed die boosdoener sou nie kans gehad het om te ontsnap sonder om gesien te word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die badkamerdeur was van binne af gesluit en hulle het die deur oopgebreek en ingegaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afrika het voor die kas in die badkamer gaan staan en besef dit is groot genoeg vir iemand om daarin weg te kruip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toe hy die kas se deur oopmaak, het hy die vermeende inbreker wat daarin weggekruip het, ontdek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie polisieman het my beampte dadelik bygestaan om die verdagte in hegtenis te neem,\u201d het Van Tonder verduidelik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Van Tonder is die man dadelik na die St. Helenabaai-polisiekantoor geneem, waar \u2019n strafregtelike klag teen hom aangemeld is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smith het aan Weslander<\/span> ges\u00ea die inbreker het eers deur die plafon toegang tot die perseel probeer kry, maar nie daarin geslaag nie. Toe het hy skroewe uit die dak probeer haal, maar dit het ook nie gewerk nie. Uiteindelik het hy die dakgemonteerde windturbine-ventilator afgehaal en deur die ventilasieskag in die gebou afgesak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNooit het ons gedink iemand sal deur die whirly<\/span> in die winkel kan inkom nie. Hy was slim om s\u00f3 in te kom, maar nie slim genoeg om vooraf \u2019n ontsnappingsplan te beraam nie,\u201d het Smith tong in die kies ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHy was in die gebou<\/span> vasgekeer en kon nie uitkom nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith het verduidelik die inbreker het ook die drade van die alarm afgeruk om die sirene stil te maak, maar klaarblyklik nie geweet die alarm is steeds geaktiveer en word deur die veiligheidsmaatskappy se stelsel waargeneem nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy s\u00ea die man het hom in die badkamer toegesluit toe hy besef die owerhede is op sy spoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDeur flinke optrede en inisiatief is nog \u2019n misdadiger uit ons midde verwyder. Welgedaan aan die polisie en Max,\u201d het Van Tonder dankbaar ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smith het Fidelity ADT Weskus en die polisie vir hul \u201cpuik werk\u201d bedank. \u201cOns is so dankbaar,\u201d het sy bygevoeg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens kapt. Tania Helfrich, \u2019n polisiewoordvoerder vir die Weskus-distrik, het die verdagte (27) wat Vrydagoggend om 01:15 op die toneel in hegtenis geneem is, Maandag 19 September in die Vredenburg-landdroshof verskyn. 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