{"id":183508,"date":"2026-04-12T02:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/183508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:47:47","slug":"dramatic-scenes-in-sandton-as-cops-intercept-alleged-robbers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/183508\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic scenes in Sandton as cops intercept alleged robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A suspect is in custody after the Gauteng highway patrol was alerted to an attempted armed robbery of a guest near a hotel in Sandton on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The unit was joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/news\/2026-03-31-joburg-pothole-fixed-soon-after-helen-zilles-visit-to-swim-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/news\/2026-03-31-joburg-pothole-fixed-soon-after-helen-zilles-visit-to-swim-in-it\/\">Johannesburg metro<\/a> police and private security to trace the suspects, who were in a white Toyota Corolla. The car was sighted in Katherine Street with three occupants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the team attempted to stop the vehicle but it sped away and a chase ensued. With the team in pursuit, two suspects jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team continued to chase the vehicle, which bumped into a truck and came to a halt. The driver of the vehicle got out and tried to run but the police gave chase and caught him a few metres from the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of two unlicensed pistols, ammunition and gloves. The vehicle had been hijacked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/news\/2025-03-10-two-brothers-among-four-young-pupils-killed-in-daveyton-road-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sowetan.co.za\/news\/2025-03-10-two-brothers-among-four-young-pupils-killed-in-daveyton-road-accident\/\">Daveyton<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect will face charges of possession of a hijacked vehicle, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition and reckless and negligent driving. Tracing the two escaped suspects is under way.<\/p>\n<p>Four suspected robbers arrested<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Johannesburg metro police department was on Thursday night also involved in the arrest of four suspected robbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Working with police, the unit responded to an alert to be on the lookout for three vehicles used in the commission of a business robbery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two vehicles matching the descriptions were spotted at the Nasrec Road and M1 South on ramp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The vehicles were stopped and, after a search, the men were charged with illegal possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TimesLIVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect is in custody after the Gauteng highway patrol was alerted to an attempted armed robbery of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[93152,93155,93154,93153,5010,33828,131],"class_list":["post-183508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-cops-and-robbers","tag-hotel-guest","tag-hotel-guest-crime","tag-katherine-street","tag-robbery","tag-sandton","tag-south-africa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116389458886822811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}