Members’ continuous efforts to prevent and detect stolen stock has yielded success over the weekend in the Katkop area where 63 livestock were recovered.
In the first incident on 20 May 2023 at 09:00, members from the Maluti Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit and Crime Intelligence worked across district borders after receiving information of alleged stolen cattle at Manxeleni village in the Katkop area.
On their arrival the suspect ran away and a total of eight cattle with no branding, were recovered.
On the 21 May 2023 at 04:00, the Maluti Stock Theft and Endangered Species Unit members conducted an intelligence driven operation about alleged stolen goats and sheep in the Katkop area and proceeded to Gwadana village where they recovered thirty-two goats and at Sithaleni village they recovered twenty three sheep.
The suspect who was transporting the sheep ran away on seeing the police approaching.
All the livestock was impounded at the Mount Fletcher municipal…
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