Durban — A motorist’s vehicle was found abandoned and badly damaged in KwaMashu after it was stolen, stripped and fitted with false number plates.
Marshall Security managing director Tyron Powell said a motorist’s vehicle was found severely stripped and fitted with false number plates only 20 minutes after teams were activated to locate it.
Powell said a motorist’s vehicle was found severely stripped and fitted with false number plates only 20 minutes after teams were activated to locate it.
He said that on Friday morning, members of their special operations team were activated to assist Matrix Tracking with finding a grey Toyota Fortuner that had been stolen in the Point area, close to Addington Hospital.
“Members immediately responded and within 20 minutes the vehicle was found abandoned and recovered in a residential driveway by members of our special ops team and Matrix ground team in KwaMashu B section,” Powell said.
“The vehicle was badly damaged during the process of being severely stripped, and had also been fitted with false number plates with the originals still underneath.”
Powell said the scene was secured and the vehicle was handed over to the KwaMashu SAPS for further processing and investigation.
Police had not commented by the time of publication.
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