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A gang of 13 men held staff and customers at gunpoint at a beauty store in the Musgrave Centre in Durban on Friday before making off with cash and perfumes.
A series of gunshots could be heard on the busy Musgrave Road at about 6pm as the robbers made their escape in three vehicles
Bit of early Christmas shopping...Gang of 13 rob Durban beauty store of cash and perfumes
More at: https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...rob-durban-beauty-store-of-cash-and-perfumes/
Going to see much more of this due to cost of living / lack of jobs....Bit of early Christmas shopping...
Its Crime Time all day...all night...365...Going to see much more of this due to cost of living / lack of jobs....
Durban – Police are investigating a robbery by an armed gang who targeted a Vodacom store, its staff and customers at the weekend.
In a video that has gone viral on social media, at least 7 suspects are seen entering the store in Windermere Centre, Morningside.
Police spokesperson Constable Thenjiswa Ngcobo said that according to the report, 6 suspects accosted an employee in the store at 12pm on Sunday, September 11.
“At gunpoint, they took cellphones and fled the scene,” Ngcobo said.
“A case of robbery was opened at Berea police station for investigation.”
Barely a month after the luxurious Oceans Mall in Umhlanga opened, one of its stores was stormed by armed robbers on Tuesday.
MTN, one of more than 100 shops in the 36,000m2 complex, was targeted.
Five armed men who stormed a Phoenix jewellery store and made off with loot worth millions of rand have been sentenced in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court, thanks to CCTV footage, DNA evidence from the vehicle, and cellphone evidence led during trial proceedings.
Siyanda Mthethwa, 30, Siyanda Blose, 35, Philani Ngwane, 27, Mbongeni Mlotshwa, 26, and Siboniso Ndlovu, 24, were found guilty on three counts of robbery following the robbery in February 2018.
The National Prosecuting Authority’s KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson, Natasha Ramkisson-Kara, said the men carried out the robbery at Mayuri Jewellers at Phoenix Plaza, where they also robbed two staff members of their belongings, and fled with jewellery worth approximately R2 million.
A Pretoria man has been arrested after he was allegedly found in possession of several cellphones which had been stolen during a recent robbery at a Pep store.
The cellphones, which were fitted with tracking devices, had been stolen during a robbery in Mabopane, north of Pretoria.
Police spokesperson in Tshwane, Warrant Officer Johan van Dyk said robbers unwittingly stole a gadget which contained a tracking device, and police were soon knocking on their door.
I wonder which shopping centre that was?Saw this in my newsfeed earlier today, and thought to myself,
so much for escaping JHB Bedfordview where this sort of thing happens all the time,
Details a bit thin, no idea what shop they targeted