An eyewitness has told EWN that criminals arrived in two vehicles and tried, unsuccessfully, to bomb a cash van in Evaton on Monday afternoon. Bystanders saw this as an opportunity to try their luck.
The group of armed men escaped with an undisclosed amount of money in Vaalpark on Friday.
The group was handcuffed on Friday during a joint operation between the Johannesburg Metro Police Department and the South African Police Service.
Earlier this week, SBV Service workers were attacked by a group of armed criminals in Pretoria, making off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Residents and motorists have reported hearing explosions and gunfire just after 6 am on Thursday morning.
Police Minister Bheki Cele told the media in Centurion on Wednesday that they have arrested 13 suspects in the past few days as well as one of kingpins involved in these violent heists.
Sabric’s Kevin Twiname says they’ve recorded a significant increase in the number of criminal attacks on cash-in-transit vans this year.
JMPD Wayne Minnaar says suspects shot the cash transport vehicle, bursting its tyres, before gaining access to it.
A gang of men tried to rob the cash van on the corner of Twist and Noord streets. There was a shootout between the criminals and security guards and one guard and a suspect were wounded.
The crime happened just after 8 pm last night, prompting all four lanes on the freeway to be closed.
It’s understood the two men escaped shots that were fired at them on Monday evening.
It's understood gunmen in three vehicles tried to stop the cash truck by opening fire on the vehicle on the road.
Two cash in transit security guards were shot and wounded in a heist just outside the Carlton Center shopping mall on Monday.
It’s understood a white Toyota quantum stopped near a Capitec ATM at Carlton Centre in the Johannesburg CBD earlier on Monday.
Dr Hennie Lochner interviewed 21 convicted robbers, in order to find information that could help police.
It’s understood a group of robbers opened fire on the security vehicle this morning.
Wilhelmina Skosana was one of nine pensioners who were shot and wounded during a cash-in-transit heist at the Soshanguve Plaza last Wednesday.
The Hawks say six men are recovering in hospital under police guard.
