Swift response to information received resulted in the speedy arrest of two alleged stock thieves early on the morning of 17 January 2023 in Cookhouse.
It is alleged that at about 06:30, SAPS Cookhouse members responded to a complaint of the slaughtering of sheep at a farm in the Cookhouse area.
As the police approached the farm, the suspects spotted them and started running. The members had found two sheep that had already been slaughtered and another two sheep were killed and tied up.
The members managed to arrest one suspect, aged 53 years, while he was walking on the main road.
He had blood stains on his clothes. Another suspect, aged 35 years, was later arrested at his house in the area. The other three suspects are on the run.
It was later established that a total of 35 sheep was stolen from a farm in Bedford of which four were killed. The remaining 31 sheep was handed back to the owner.
The estimated value of the stolen sheep is R87 500-00.
The suspects were charged for stock theft and will appear in the Bedford magistrate court on 18 January 2023.
