8 escape from Modimolle police cells
March 3 2015 at 12:52pm
By SAPA
By SAPA
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Limpopo - Eight suspects have escaped from the Modimolle police
station's holding cells, Limpopo police said on Tuesday.
“The escape was discovered on Monday morning around 3am,” said Colonel
Ronel Otto.
“We suspect that they used some kind of object to saw through the
burglar proofing on the roof.”
The suspects were being held for house breaking, house robbery and drug
possession.
Two of the suspects, Andries and Titus Chauke, were on trial for stock
theft.
Their co-accused, Tinus Groenewald, was last week sentenced to 80 years
imprisonment in the Mokopane Regional Court for cattle theft.
Groenewald, from the East Rand, stole about R2 million worth of cattle
and goats in Limpopo and North West in July and August 2013.
Otto said the eight were armed and dangerous. She appealed to people not
to confront them, but to contact police.
Sapa
