{"id":57528,"date":"2026-10-16T12:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/durban-metro-police-services-uncover-a-decomposed-body-a-suspected-vehicle-chop-shop-and-three-stripped-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T12:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T10:45:05","slug":"durban-metro-police-services-uncover-a-decomposed-body-a-suspected-vehicle-chop-shop-and-three-stripped-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/durban-metro-police-services-uncover-a-decomposed-body-a-suspected-vehicle-chop-shop-and-three-stripped-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Durban Metro Police services uncover a decomposed body, a suspected vehicle chop shop and three stripped vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Durban Metro Police Service Drug Team, working alongside Chatsworth South African Police Service and Crime Intelligence, discovered a decomposed body at a property in Shallcross following reports of a foul smell.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers uncovered a suspected vehicle chop shop and recovered three stripped vehicles: a Volkswagen Scirocco and two Mercedes-Benz C-Class vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Checks confirmed that the vehicles or their components were linked to previous SAPS cases.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles were seized and taken to Chatsworth SAPS for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>An inquest docket has been opened, and investigations into the death and suspected vehicle-related crimes are ongoing&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78878&#038;page=durban-metro-police-services-uncover-a-decomposed-body-a-suspected-vehicle-chop-shop-and-three-stripped-vehicles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Durban Metro Police Service Drug Team, working alongside Chatsworth South African Police Service and Crime Intelligence, discovered a decomposed body at a property in Shallcross following reports of a foul smell. During the investigation, officers uncovered a suspected vehicle chop shop and recovered three stripped vehicles: a Volkswagen Scirocco and two Mercedes-Benz C-Class vehicles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/853231494_1103983575723381_1687742509197043308_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/853231494_1103983575723381_1687742509197043308_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}