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In a bizarre incident reminiscent of popular TV show America’s Dumbest Criminals, a woman walked into the Mthatha Central police station to claim a herd of cows which had been recovered after being stolen in KwaBhaca.But she soon found herself behind bars on stock theft charges after police found a calf inside her double-cab bakkie.
A 14-year-old girl accused of kidnapping a seven-day-old baby boy from his mother at Mthatha General Hospital has been released into the custody of her mother after spending the weekend in jail.
Concerned authorities in crime-ridden Mthatha have called on scrap-metal dealers to help them stop cable theft
After a series of daring cash-in-transit robberies in the Eastern Cape , provincial police management has welcomed the arrest of two men aged 21 and 24 at the weekend for possession of explosives and firearms.
Police had to fire teargas to disperse a crowd early on Tuesday as an ambulance struggled to reach a man who had been beaten and stoned after being accused of abducting a five-year-old girl.The child, who was found unharmed with the man, had been reported missing by her family at the Mthatha Central police station on Monday morning.