Alleged 27 gang member now 17th suspect arrested for murder of âsteroid kingâ
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Cape Town â One more suspect, alleged to be a 27 gang member, has been arrested by The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) on Thursday morning for the murder of Brian Wainstein.
The 42-year-old suspect is due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate Court next Tuesday, April 6, following the Easter weekend.
In a statement, Hawks spokesperson Katlego Mogale said the suspect was arrested by a multidisciplinary team â Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation together with Crime Intelligence and other Hawks investigating teams in Cape Town.
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Ballistics testing will determine whether a firearm found in the gang-infested Elsies River was used in the assassination of the Anti-Gang Unit’s Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
The gun was confiscated on Friday, 12 March, after members of the Hawks and the Anti-Gang Unit swooped on the area. This was after information was received that a suspect, allegedly in possession of a firearm that could have been used in the murder of Kinnear on 18 September 2020, was hidden at a residence in Avonwood, Elsies River.
Initial reports on Sunday 14 March indicated that when members of the multidisciplinary team approached the premises, the suspect fled through a window and threw a firearm on the roof. He was arrested and the firearm confiscated.
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A witness in the murder investigation of the Anti-Gang Unit s Charl Kinnear compiled reports for the police to show the senior detective was being tracked.
The Bellville Regional Court heard that Bradley Goldblatt, whose house was raked with bullets in a drive-by shooting, also gave police updates on this before Kinnear was murdered.
Kilian s lawyer maintains that the evidence against the debt collector and former rugby player is circumstantial and that the real killer has not been caught.
A witness in the investigation into the murder of the Anti-Gang Unit s Charl Kinnear warned the police several times that he had found out that his client Zane Kilian was allegedly using ping bundles to track the location of the senior detective before he was killed, the Bellville Regional Court heard on Thursday.