Four men were arrested on Thursday night for breaking into a Port Elizabeth liquor store hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the countrywide lockdown.
Atlas Security reports that it received a panic signal from an on-site security officer at the business in Walmer just after 10 pm.
According to a statement, armed response officers arrived within minutes and found two suspects waiting in a “get-away” vehicle outside the premises.
“Their escape route was blocked, and both were arrested,” Atlas said.
Two other suspects who were inside the store tried to evade arrest, but one sustained an injury on the broken window that they had entered through.
The four were arrested and handed over to the police.
Spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, says five bottles of liquor, two cell phones, a power bank and car keys, were recovered.
She said the suspects will be charged with housebreaking as well as for contravening Regulation11 (B) (1) (a) (i) read with 11 (G) issued into of Section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act for not confining themselves to their place of residence.
They are expected to appear in the Port Elizabeth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 14/04.
(PiC: Supplied)
