Durban – Marshall Security said that its members, along with police and tracking companies recovered four stolen vehicles in three separate incidents on Monday and Tuesday this week.
Marshall Security managing director Tyron Powell said that in the most recent incident on Tuesday afternoon their special ops team assisted Tracker SA to search for a silver Toyota Hilux that had been stolen during a housebreaking incident in the Westbrook area, in oThongathi.
“The homeowners woke up and noticed that the vehicle was missing. Our team members immediately responded and after a 30-minute track, the vehicle was found abandoned and was recovered on Riverdene Drive, Newlands West by members of our Special Ops Team assisted by the Tracker SA Ground Team, the SAPS Provincial Trio Task Team and Umhlali K9 Unit.”
Powell added that the scene was secured and handed over to the SAPS for further investigation and processing.
Powell said that in another incident on Tuesday morning, two stolen vehicles from the Umkomaas area were recovered in Newlands West by members of their Special Ops team.
“On Monday night an unknown number of suspects had broken into a resident’s house during load shedding, stolen the car keys and made off with a silver Hyundai i20 and a charcoal grey BMW 420D. The homeowners only became aware of the theft of their vehicles at around 6.30 on Tuesday morning while searching for their car keys to go to work.”
Powell added that they were able to recover both vehicles with the assistance of Netstar tracking.
“Our members immediately responded to the last known locations of the wanted vehicles and within minutes from being activated both vehicles were found abandoned and recovered in the Newlands West area by members of our Special Ops Team assisted by the Netstar ground team. Both scenes were secured and handed over to the SAPS.”
Powell said that in another incident on Monday morning, the Special Operations Team recovered a hijacked vehicle which was taken from Durban Central in the Springfield Park area.
“On Monday morning members of our Special Operations Team were activated to assist Matrix with tracking a red VW Polo that had been hijacked last week Friday in the Durban Central area.”
The vehicle was found abandoned and was recovered at a vacant industrial building in the Springfield Park area by members of Marshall Security, Matrix Ground Team and Umlazi K9 Unit.