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Durban – Two gunmen believed to be connected to a gang involved in a host of violent crimes in KwaZulu-Natal were arrested on Sunday in a blitz against organised crime overseen by provincial police commissioner Mmamonnye Ngobeni. <\/p>\n
So far the operation has netted 17 suspects over the past week – all linked to murders, robberies and hijackings. <\/p>\n
On Sunday, as <\/p>\n
police spokesman Captain Thulani Zwane and Colonel Bongani Khumalo, cluster commissioner for Inanda, were holding a press briefing on the success of the operation a shootout was taking place in KwaDabeka outside Pinetown. <\/p>\n
Khumalo said the police had gone to KwaDabeka after receiving a tipoff that suspects who had stolen R400 000 from the Bridge City Mall in KwaMashu were having a party. <\/p>\n
Police surrounded a low-cost house but, during the shootout, some suspects escaped. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to arrest two of them. The house belonged to one of the suspects. We recovered two vehicles, a Corsa and a BMW,\u201d said Zwane. <\/p>\n
Zwane said Ngobeni formed a task team after noticing how robbers were targeting Spar Supermarkets, pension pay points and liquor outlets. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He said seven suspects were arrested after a shootout with police at a house of a traditional healer in Maphumulo outside Stanger last Thursday. <\/p>\n
\u201cPolice found them with the traditional healer where they had gone to cleanse themselves in order to protect themselves from being arrested. They had allegedly robbed a Spar in Maphumulo,\u201d said Zwane. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The suspects who were arrested last week would appear in Maphumulo, Ntuzuma and Pinetown Magistrate\u2019s courts. <\/p>\n
In a separate incident Sapa reports that two suspected drug dealers – a man and a woman – were arrested at a flat in Illovo Beach at the weekend. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe man was found in possession of R50 000 and drugs,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n
The police then went to another flat in Umhlanga, which the man was renting, and found R150 000 and 500 ecstasy tablets. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The two will appear in the Durban Magistrate\u2019s Court today. <\/p>\n
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