Footprints lead cops to robbers
28/12/2006 21:56  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - Metro police arrested three people on Thursday for a burglary at the municipal department of transport in Germiston.

Inspector Jimmy Maboko said a 33-year-old man, a 26-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman were arrested at Makause informal settlement in Primrose, Germiston, after police tracked their footprints in the mud.

The department of transport has a storage facility for buses, municipal cars and car parts.

"They broke in between midnight and 06:00, but we were able to track them by their footprints from a hole made in the fence and the marks of the tyres they stole from the department," said Maboko.

Police recovered 16 bus tyres, four sedan tyres, a video machine, a television set and two computers at a shack in the settlement.

The three suspects are expected to appear before the Germiston magistrate's court for the possession of stolen property on Friday.

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