By Obakeng Maje

Kimberley-The SAPS Organised Crime unit are investigating a robbery which allegedly took place on 24 May 2013 at approximately 13:40pm. 

It is alleged that the driver of a courier company was forced to stop his Mercedes Sprinter due to an obstruction on the road. 

“A tyre was rolled in front of his vehicle approximately 22km outside Kimberley on the Griquastad Road” Lieutenant Sergio Kock said. 

Police said alongside the road, a brown Toyota Cressida was parked with its bonnet open. The courier vehicle was transporting cash and was en-route to Kimberley” said Kock. 

The driver and the passenger was approached by two men who jumped out from the back of the Toyota Cressida. 

They threatened the men and tied up the passenger with duck-tape and pushed him in the back of the Sprinter. 

“The two men took an axe and chopped open the safe inside the Sprinter and removed a substantial amount of money from the safe. They allegedly fled in the Cressida, leaving the two men behind” Kock said. 

During the investigation, Detective Warrant Officer Henk Van der Merwe from the SAPS Organised Crime unit suspected that the statement made by the driver of the courier company appears to be suspicious. 

“The driver was arrested together with two other men on the 27 May.The other two suspects are from Bloemfontein”.

Police recovered R11 000 of the money. 

The police also confiscated the brown Toyota Cressida that was used during the commission of crime.

The suspects known as Ayanda Ntabeni(32), Pro Mpukwana(31) and Luyanda Mpukwana(21) appeared before the Kimberley Magistrates’ Court on 29 May 2013 and the case was remanded until Monday for a formal bail application. 

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