Police arrested two suspects and recovered a trailer loaded with copper plates worth more than R6 million in Ekurhuleni in the early hours of the morning on Thursday, 15 June 2023.
Information was received about a truck that was hijacked at De Hoek Toll Plaza in the Free State Province. Ekurhuleni Trio Task Team together with a private security company immediately responded and went on a lookout for the suspects. The information led the police to Katlehong where two suspects were found offloading the copper plates from the hijacked trailer. The truck was later found abandoned in Heidelberg.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects hijacked the truck and hooked up the trailer into their truck, then sped off.
The arrested suspects will be charged with possession of suspected stolen property and a hijacked trailer while the search is continuing for other suspects.
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