Police arrest seven suspects offloading R1.2 million in stolen goods

EMPD Recovers Hijacked Trailer, Stolen Goods Worth Over R1 Million, 7 Suspects Nabbed

Johannesburg – Police have arrested seven suspects and recovered a hijacked trailer and stolen goods worth more than a million rand. The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) was alerted to be on the lookout for a truck hijacked in the early hours of Friday, 31 October 2025, in Pretoria.   Following the coordinates, the EMPD officers went to a plot in Gwendeleon Street in Petit. Upon arrival, they found seven men offloading the hijack…

Seven foreign nationals arrested and R1.4m in stock and a trailer recovered in Benoni

On Friday 31 October 2025 at 09:00, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) Intervention Unit Officers, inconjuction with South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence Officers and other stakeholders, arrested seven (7) foreign nationals between the ages of twenty-five (25) and thirty-eight (38) years, in Benoni. Following on information received […]

Police arrest seven suspects offloading R1.2 million in stolen goods

By Everson Luhanga Police tracked a hijacked truck from Pretoria to a plot in benoni where suspects were found offloading R1.2 million worth of stolen stock. The suspects, aged between 25 and 38, face charges of hijacking, possession of stolen goods and immigration offences after their arrest in petit. A gang of suspected hijackers was busted in Benoni while offloading a trailer full of stolen goods worth more than R1.2 million. The dramatic ta…