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Give us back our guns say Duncan Village cops
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A Stuijt |
If that police-issue Z88 handgun does not belong to you, then you should give it back or report it. Well in this case it did not happen exactly the way it should have been, writes SA Police captain Stephen Marais.
On 15 January 2008 at 18:00, three members of the Duncan Village Police Station in the Eastern Cape province finally did get back what belonged to the police. Pictured from left to right are Sergeant Denver Lucas, Detective Constables Nico Williams and Suneel Bellochun, who went on an investigation when they came to hear of a police firearm that had landed in the wrong hands after it had been robbed from one of the police officers at the Duncan Village Police Station in 2006.
Their informer directed them to a specific address in Ntsenergo Street in Duncan Village where they followed up on the information and managed to arrest a 24-year-old after finding the Z88. The members searched the house and found the firearm underneath the couch where the suspect was sitting. The firearm was wrapped in a red scarf, was loaded and ready to fire. A further eight live rounds of ammunition were recovered in the magazine.
The suspect alleged he’d retrieved it “ from a drunken man in a shebeen’ (village pub) and decided to make it his own. Unfortunately, it did not stay his for long as the police took back what belonged to them. The suspect was arrested and charged at the Duncan Village Police Station for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
The suspect cannot be named until he’s appeared in court on 19 January 2009 in East London. Station Commissioner of Duncan Village, director Alex Sofute, praised the members for their good work and their attempts in ‘keeping our streets clean and safe from the bad elements in our society’.
"What was ours and taken away from us is back where it belongs", he said.
Captain Marais: telephone (043) 7221461; Cellphone: 082 416 1597 Email stephenmaraissaps@webmail.co.za
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