{"id":305876,"date":"2021-07-08T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=305876"},"modified":"2021-07-08T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:01:01","slug":"police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=305876","title":{"rendered":"Police hunting for a robbery gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n<p>THE Namibian Police is hunting for a gang of five armed robbers that held the owners of a smallholding next to the Swakop River at knifepoint before robbing them of various valuable items including a car.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the incident report provided by NamPol in the Erongo Region, the robbery occurred at about 21:30 on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report states the suspects entered the home of the victims and held them at knifepoint. The robbers took several items of value from the house such as an external hard drive, laptop computers, camera equipment, a mobile phone, a television, a wedding ring, a handbag, a telescope, as well as the victims\u2019 vehicle, a Nissan Pathfinder. The value of the stolen goods is estimated at N$598 800.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The robbery victims told investigating officers that the robbers loaded all the stolen items in the vehicle and drove off into the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang.png\" alt=\"Police hunting robbery Namibian Police hunting gang armed robbers Swakop River knifepoint robbing car\" class=\"wp-image-305877\" width=\"527\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang.png 527w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Police-hunting-for-a-robbery-gang-36x36.png 36w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption>PICTURED: The Nissan Pathfinder that was recovered by members of the Namibian Police investigating an armed robbery on a smallholding next to the Swakop River. \u2013 Photo: Contributed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout one kilometre away from the homestead the Pathfinder got stuck in the dry river bed. The robbers transferred the stolen goods to another vehicle and fled taking the keys of the Pathfinder that got stuck in the sand with them,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the report the Pathfinder was recovered during a search for the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>None of the other stolen items was recovered and no arrest has been affected yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NamPol has called on the public to assist them in tracing the suspects as well as the stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any person with information should please contact Detective Chief Inspector Johannes Mwatongwe at 081 246 1121 or Detective Inspector John Geiseb at 081 262 9842 or provides such information at the nearest Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ni\u00ebl Terblanch\u00e9 THE Namibian Police is hunting for a gang of five armed robbers that held the owners of a smallholding next to the Swakop River at knifepoint before robbing them of various valuable items including a car. \u00a0 According to the incident report provided by NamPol in the Erongo Region, the robbery occurred at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":305877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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