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A police stake-out in Park Rynie on the South Coast on Monday night saw a suspected notorious criminal and his accomplice caught red-handed while cutting the electric fence of a home they were about to rob. File photo: Boxer Ngwenya<\/p>\n
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Cape Town – A police stake-out in Park Rynie on the South Coast on Monday night saw a suspected notorious criminal and his accomplice caught \u201cred-handed\u201d while cutting the electric fence of a home they were about to rob. <\/p>\n
Police spokesman Thulani Zwane said the operation was led by the Shongweni K-9 unit, in conjunction with a private investigator. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The two men had been linked to several violent burglaries and hijackings in Durban\u2019s upper Highway area, police said. <\/p>\n
Zwane said the pair held up a family at gunpoint and robbed them in Botha\u2019s Hill on Monday. <\/p>\n
That night, at about 11pm, two policemen saw them driving towards Park Rynie and contacted the Shongweni K-9 dog unit, which deals with violent, dangerous criminals. <\/p>\n
A policeman who was at the scene when the two were arrested said they were \u201ccarefully\u201d followed by police in unmarked cars. <\/p>\n
The men parked near a complex without suspecting that police were watching them. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to catch them in the act and add it to the crimes they are linked to. We wanted a strong case,\u201d the policeman said. <\/p>\n
When the police saw them working on the wiring of the complex, they moved in. The officer explained that robbers often did this to \u201clure\u201d homeowners outside so they could attack them at gunpoint. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey were surprised when we caught them in the act,\u201d he said. Both were smoking the drug crystal meth, which is known to give a lasting high and sense of infallibility. <\/p>\n
After being told to hand themselves over, the two tried to run to their car, but the police had blocked it off. The robbers then tried to run down the road but were brought down by police dogs. They were arrested and are being held at the Hillcrest police station. <\/p>\n
The men were found to be in possession of a gun, five cellphones, a Garmin GPS, a Taurus pellet gun, a CD player and a car radio, all suspected to have been stolen. Balaclavas, gloves and \u201chousebreaking implements\u201d were found in the car they were travelling in. <\/p>\n
Zwane said the two were wanted for a host of crimes. <\/p>\n
Reacting to the arrests, Kerry Nightscales wrote on Facebook that one of the men had drugged her and she had been \u201cout\u201d for three days. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m thankful for the true friends that helped me out of it and got rid of him. He\u2019s a meth addict with serious issues!\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Wayne Sudding said of the arrests: \u201cFantastic, as he terrorised Botha\u2019s Hill in the early hours of Sunday.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Westriding patrol and response team put out this notice about one of the men on Facebook: \u201cHe has been involved in a number of violent home attacks and house robberies in the upper Highway area. Do not approach him.\u201d <\/p>\n
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