With a new spate of motor vehicle theft targeting the Toyota Hilux GD6, police on Sunday arrested three South African men at Dibete Barrier Gate.
The trio from Rustenburg was found in possession of a suspected stolen Toyota Hilux, GD6.
Aged 41, 45, and 24 from Snail Street, Boitekong, and Leeurik Avenue in Rusternburg, the trio was driving from the south to the north when the three were intercepted by the police. Dibete Police Station commander, Superintendent Meshack Ranku revealed that the men failed to account for the car following a police interrogation.
Ranku said according to their passports they had entered the country through the Sikwane border gate.
“This is the eighth case of a suspected stolen vehicle from South Africa since March and these cases have been a nightmare since beginning. We have established that South Africans use Botswana as a transit to smuggle stolen Toyota model vehicles to Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The targeted vehicles are Toyota Hilux, Fortuner and Toyota Cross,” Ranku said.
