stute investigations by the King Cetshwayo District’s Economic Infrastructure Task Team officers has resulted in the arrest of eight foreign nationals for tampering with essential infrastructure, possession of suspected stolen property, receiving suspected stolen property as well as possession of house breaking implements.
Police officers were investigating break-ins at three cellphone towers in the district and on Thursday, 13 June 2024, four suspects were arrested at Gingindlovu for tempering with essential infrastructure. Further investigations led the Task Team members to an identified premises in Chatsworth where another four suspects were caught in the act of packaging suspected stolen cellphone tower batteries. Forty cellphone tower batteries from three cellphone network companies, amounting to a value of R1 million were found in the possession of the suspects.
The eight suspects, all from the same neighbouring country and whose ages range between 35 and 49 years old, are due to appear in the Chatsworth Magistrate’s Court today, Friday, 14 June 2024.
