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Stolen guns found buried in back yard of a Port Elizabeth shack

24 August 2018 By Google

Three stolen hunting rifles were found buried in the backyard of a Port Elizabeth shack on Friday morning.

The firearms were part of a collection of five rifles and one handgun stolen from a game farm in the Steytlerville area last weekend.

Police spokeswoman Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the bust came after a farm house was burgled, while no one was at the farm, last Saturday.The game farm falls under the policing area of Wolwefontein police station near Steytlerville.

The seven day investigation led them to arrest three suspects during the week and recover three of the stolen firearms on Friday morning.

Naidu said that the discovery of the burglary came after a person looking after the farm arrived there last Saturday and noticed the vehicle parked in a different place.

“He alerted the owner who was in Uitenhage and on his arrival, they discovered that the house had been broken into,” she said.

“Entry was gained by breaking a window. The safe was forced opened during the burglary and several firearms were stolen.”

After the burglary, local farming neighbourhood watches – together with local police – received information on who the burglars were and posted the suspects’ pictures on their internal social media security groups.

Naidu said that by Thursday, one of the neighbourhood watch members spotted one of the suspects in a bakkie in Cape Road. Police were called and the 25-year-old man arrested.

“After his arrest, more leads were followed and this took officials to Kamesh in Uitenhage. With the assistance of Kamesh police members, another

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Read More Here: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2018-08-24-stolen-guns-found-buried-in-back-yard-of-a-port-elizabeth-shack/

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