This morning our team members recovered a Fuso truck that had been hijacked by armed suspects in the Morningside area.
At approximately 06h30 the Marshall Security Emergency Dispatch Centre was alerted to a hijacking that had occurred on Tenth Avenue in the Morningside area, where an unknown amount of armed suspects hijacked a Fuso truck.
Armed Response Officers were immediately dispatched to the scene and the details of the hijacked vehicle were circulated to all our Armed Response Officers and Special Operations Team members to be on the lookout.
It was later established that the truck was fitted with a tracking device and at approximately 08h00 it was found abandoned and recovered in the Inanda area by the Bidvest ground team and members of our Special Ops Team.
The scene was secured and handed over to the SAPS for further investigation and processing.
This incident was the second armed hijacking this week following yesterday’s hijacking on the N2 Spaghetti Junction where a courier vehicle was hijacked by an unknown amount armed suspects.
