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Tip-off leads to 'bank robbers'
02/05/2007 13:42 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A West Rand police task team arrested a gang of nine men - thought to be bank robbers - outside Magaliesberg on Wednesday morning.
They were travelling in a convoy of three vehicles when the team - acting on a tip-off, pulled them off the main road to Rustenburg shortly after 07:00, said Gauteng police spokesperson superintendent Lungelo Dlamini.
They found an AK-47 assault rifle, five pistols and a revolver in one of the vehicles - a rented, 25-seater Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.
Another of the vehicles, a white Volkswagen Golf, was later found to have been stolen. The third vehicle was a red Nissan Sentra.
"We believe they are bank robbers," Dlamini said on the nine men arrested and in custody at the Magaliesberg Police Station.
However, they were still being profiled to establish whether they could be linked to any crimes and if any of them had criminal records.
All nine were men between the ages of 25 and 35 years, from different pats of Gauteng. They were all South Africans.
Dlamini said they were thought to have operated between Gauteng and the North West.
He said they would at this stage be charged with possession of unlicensed firearms and a stolen vehicle and would appear in the Rustenburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.
- SAPA
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