KWAZULU-NATAL. – An alleged burglar was arrested on Wednesday in Boughton after Mi7 Reaction Officers linked him to an earlier incident in which several suspects were spotted on a client's property. He had to be released because a complainant declined to open a case.
According to Mi7, control room operators dispatched reaction officers after an alarm was activated at a property. On their arrival, officers spotted several suspects on the premises and pursued them, but the suspects managed to escape.
Later that evening, information was received of persons seen in bushes near the property who matched the description of the suspects who had been on the premises earlier. Reaction officers were sent to the area and spotted the same suspects attempting to gain access to another client's property. The suspects again fled to the surrounding bushes, where they were searched for.
One suspect was arrested and was confirmed by Mi7 as a person involved in the earlier incident. Police were called and arrived shortly after. The client, however, decided not to open a case, after which the suspect was released with a warning.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
