A 31-year-old man was recently arrested in the Makause informal settlement, on charges of theft.<\/p>\n
The arrest was made after a man came to the Primrose Police Station to report the theft.<\/p>
The man told officers that he was on his way to work when his landlord called him and reminded him that he had not paid his rent.<\/p>\n
He ignored the call and, when he returned home, he found that all his belongings had been thrown out of the shack he had been renting.<\/p>
Upon further inspection he found that the locks on the shack had been changed.<\/p>\n
He began to collect his belongings and then realised that his brown leather jacket and two pairs of sports shoes, to the value of R1 350, were missing.<\/p>\n
The man was sure that his landlord had taken them and decided to open a case against him.<\/p>\n
Officers were able to trace the landlord and he was arrested.<\/p>\n
“We are appealing to the community not to take the law into their own hands; they must follow the right procedure when things happen,” said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n
The accused appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trial.<\/p>\n