DURBAN - An hour-long chase ensued after a resident from the Glenhills area in Durban North notified Marshall Security about a trespasser in a neighbouring property on Monday morning.
Marshall Security spokesperson Tyron Powell said just before 6am the Emergency Dispatch Centre received a call from a member of the public who witnessed a suspect trespassing in a neighbouring property, who is a Marshall client, on Casuarina Circle in the Glenhills area.
He said the caller gave a detailed description of the suspect which was relayed to members.
Multiple Armed Response Officers and Special Operation Team members were immediately dispatched to the scene, he said.
“As our first Armed Response Officer arrived on scene the suspect was seen climbing over the neighbouring property wall with stolen items,” said Powell.
According to Powell, as soon as the suspect noticed the Armed Response Officer, he dropped the stolen items.
“He dropped the stolen items and fled on foot, fence-hopping from property to property through the Glenhill area with our Armed Response Officers hot on his heels,’ said Powell.
Powell said the suspect was finally arrested for theft from a property after a chase that lasted nearly an hour on a property on Clematis Grove.
“It was established that the suspect had stolen the items from the first property he was seen fleeing,’’ he said. After nearly an hour of chasing after the wily suspect, he was arrested by our Armed Response Officers on a non-client property on Clematis Grove.
Greenwood Park SAPS arrived on scene and the suspect was handed over for further investigation and processing.
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