The goods recovered included bicycles, television sets, fridges, stoves and DVDs. They were hidden in the thickets between Impala and Matshelagabedi village.
Detective Superintendent Mosalagae Moseki told Mmegi yesterday that after a spate of house breaking incidents, his officers took to the thickets around town following footprints.
“Following the spate of break- ins, the police were able to launch a heavy patrol in the thickets around town only to land in a camp where they recovered goods buried in shrubs.”
Moseki indicated that the thugs have camps all over the place, where they hide their loot. He warned that the criminals are dangerous and the public should be careful. He revealed that the criminals set up snares in the bushes to stop vehicles pursuing them. “It is an open secret that the perpetrators of these crimes are Zimbabweans and they target household goods mostly.
We have followed them through footprints that have always led the police to across the border into Zimbabwe.”
By yesterday afternoon, Kutlwano police were hopeful that they would arrest the perpetrators of the crime.
A nurse at the Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital whose house was broken into at Black Four was happy that the police have recovered goods stolen from her last Saturday evening.
BOPA reporter, Tshireletso Letsebe was also happy that the police have recovered her stolen goods. The thugs had cleaned everything from her house including food.
“I cried bitterly when I learnt about this incident because this was the fourth time my house was broken into and fortunately, this time around, I managed to recover the stolen goods.”
