A former Bafana Bafana star, who seems to have fallen on hard times, has been arrested with nine other men for planning to rob a truck carrying cigarettes.
The 45-year-old man and the gang had allegedly planned to rob the truck travelling from Mpumalanga to Gauteng. However, police pounced while the men were meeting prior to the robbery.
Provincial police spokesman Lieutenant Kay Makhubela said this morning they had received a tip-off about the robbery and gone to a parking lot in Boksburg where the men were meeting at 5pm.
They arrested 10 men, including the former PSL player, who he refused to name.
“Two of the men were in metro police uniforms. We also found them in the possession of a truck jammer device.”
Makhubela said while they did not find weapons in the vehicles, they believed they may have been in another vehicle whose driver sped off as soon as he saw the police. The men were expected to appear in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, he said.
The former soccer star’s arrest comes two months after the arrest of former Jomo Cosmos and Bafana Bafana player Lebogang Morula. He and five other men allegedly overpowered guards in Ogies, Mpumalanga, while they were loading money into an ATM, and made off with cash. While the robbery was in progress, a Hawks team – who had information the heist would take place – pounced.
At the time, Morula was out on bail for attempted murder in Brits, North West.
In October 2011, it was reported that Morula and four Zimbabweans were arrested after they were allegedly found in possession of stolen goods worth R4.2 million. Morula was out on bail for a similar incident at the time.
In 2010, more than 500 stolen computers were found at a storeroom owned by Morula in GaRankuwa, north of Pretoria. They had been stolen from a hijacked truck. Metro police uniforms were also found. - The Star