Five suspects aged between 24 and 64 have been arrested following two unrelated armed robberies which took place in Bloemfontein on Wednesday 3 June 2020, at Selosesha just outside Thaba Nchu and in Elrich Park, Bloemfontein.
Two male suspects entered the local post office in Selosesha post office and pointed the security guard inside the building with a pistol and seized his pistol. A second security guard who was posted outside the building got suspicious and when he entered the premises he was overpowered and bundled into a Manager’s office after he was also threatened to open the counter door.
The two suspects took a substantial amount of pension money and fled the scene in a car with no registration numbers. The local police were alerted about the robbery and managed to locate the getaway vehicle in Thaba Nchu. Further investigations led the police to a house where the two suspects were apprehended. The police seized money believed to have been stolen from the post office, two pistols with live ammunition, a bullet proof and the vehicle.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident a suspect was arrested following a robbery of another post office in Elrich Park.
It reported that five armed suspects entered the post office and held the employees at gunpoint. The suspects then robbed the post office of a substantial amount of cash and fled the scene in a black sedan. The suspects’ vehicle was found abandoned in Batho location. The vehicle which was allegedly hijacked over the weekend in Bloemspruit has been seized together two unlicensed firearms.
The Bloemfontein Serious Organised Crime Investigation team is probing the two matters and the suspects are expected to appear in court soon.
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