Namakgale – The remarkable partnership between the Police and Mashishimale community based crime prevention structures continues to bear positive and meaningful results.
This became evident after the Police received a tip-off from a community member about the existence of the illegal explosives stored in a house within the Mashishimale village outside Phalaborwa and responded immediately.
In a swift reaction to this information, a joint sting operation was activated composed of members of SAPS Namakgale, Crime Intelligent and the National Rhino 09 Unit and followed it to the latter.
During this operation, three suspects aged between 26 and 46 were arrested for illegal possession of explosives and more arrests are expected.
The origin of these explosives is still being determined although it is believed that this might be part of a bigger syndicate on business and armed robberies where in some instances safes are blown up by the explosives including the cash in transit vehicles but the ongoing investigations will confirm that.
The suspects will appear before the Namakgale Magistrates’ Court soon.