Skip to main content

Uber hijacking syndicate foiled in Cape Town

Western Cape police believe they have thwarted a syndicate in that province, which was responsible for the hijacking of Uber and metered taxis.

                                    

Western Cape police believe they have thwarted a syndicate in that province, which was responsible for the hijacking of Uber and metered taxis.
A series of arrests have since been made, in connection with the crimes, this week.
There is still no clarity on just how long this syndicate has been operating, but there has certainly been a dramatic escalation in the number of metered taxi hijackings since October 2017.
“The bulk of the incidents were reported in the Blue Downs cluster of police stations, namely Kuils River, Kleinvlei, and Mfuleni. Incidents also occurred in the Brackenfell police precinct, in Stellenbosch, Macassar and in Somerset West,” read a statement by Western Cape police on Saturday.
So, what was the modus operandi of this syndicate and how did it manage to operate for so long?
“The suspects would order taxis under false pretences and when the driver arrived they would ask to be driven to a certain point,” continued the police statement.
“On their way there, one of the suspects, who usually sat in the front of the vehicle with the driver, would point a gun at the driver and the one at the back would choke the victim at the same time. Thereafter they would typically rob the driver of his cell phones and other valuables, pull him out of the vehicle and drive away with the vehicle.
“In some incidents the suspects ordered the driver to get into the boot of the car and, after robbing the victim, they would abandon the car and disappear with the victim’s belongings.”
“In all the incidents the suspects were described as consisting of one, two or three men. All 17 cases are linked to incidents which took place during the months October, November and December 2017.”
Three suspects have been arrested this month, all of them in their twenties. They are expected to make their first appearances in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Comments

  1. John Glenn19 January 2018 at 05:02

    Buy Real EU/USA/UK/Canadian Passports, Driver’s License, ID Cards, Citizenship etc (noveltydocumentsonline@gmail.com)

    We Are an Association Responsible for the Production of Real Genuine Passports, Real Genuine Data-Base Registered Fake Passports and other Citizenship documents. We Can Guarantee You A New Identity Starting From A Clean New Genuine Birth Certificate, ID card, Driver’s License, Passports, Social security Card With SSN, Credit Files Can You Imagine ?(noveltydocumentsonline@gmail.com)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Two teenagers arrested for raping 14-year-old girl in Ogun State

                            Two teenagers, Abiodun Ishola (19) and Kehinde Oloyede (18), have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl in Obantoko. The Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspects were arrested April 28, 2018 following a complaint from the victim who reported to the police. He said the victim, a hairdressing apprentice, said she was going to her boss’ shop on that day, and unknown to her, there was restriction of movement due to a sanitation exercise. He said one of the suspects, Ishola, who was sitting down in front of his father’s house informed her of the restriction of movement and asked her to come and stay in their house till the exercise ended. The victim told the police that while she was staying with Ishola, he took her bag inside...
Post a Comment
Read more

police arrest Pastor for allegedly raping teenage girls during a deliverance session in Anambra state

  Pastor Chukwudi Chukwumezie of the Mountain Zion deliverance Ministry, Ugamuma village, Obosi, has been arrested by men of the Anambra state police command for allegedly luring and having unlawful carnal knowledge with two fifteen years old girls under the false pretence of conducting deliverance prayers for them   A statement released by Haruna Mohammed, spokesperson of the state police command, said in August 2019, the accused clergyman was arrested for allegedly luring and having unlawful carnal knowledge with a fifteen-year-old girl at a hotel along Eze iweka road Obosi under false pretence of making a deliverance prayers for her.     Haruna said the victim to the hospital for medical Examination where penetration and laceration of her hymen were confirmed by the medical doctor after which suspect was charged to Court for prosecution.     According to the statement, the clergyman who presently jumped court ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Police arraign disbarred lawyer for alleged fraud

                                 A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gudu, Abuja on Thursday remanded a debarred lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, who runs a popular Facebook page, “Due Process Advocate”, in prison following his arraignment by the police. Mr Ugwuonye was arraigned on a 10-count charge of extortion, impersonation, injurious falsehood and false information. He was accused of extorting money from the family of a woman he falsely alleged was killed by her estranged husband. One of the charges reads: “That you Ephraim Chukwuemeka Ugwuonye (m) on or about May to date, at diverse places in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did commit illegal act to wit: extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable by death, when you intentionally extorted monies and other valuables fr...
Post a Comment
Read more