The police got wind of suspiciously cheap mutton being sold in a Bloemfontein suburb. A decoy posing as a potential buyer obtained the seller’s contact number and pretended to be interested in buying live sheep. He was allegedly offered three.
By Vida Booysen, senior journalist at African Farming and Landbouweekblad
Members of the Bloemspruit Crime Prevention Unit found three suspects in possession of eight suspected stolen sheep carcasses and one live sheep in Bergman Square, Grasslands, on Sunday, 7 September. They arrested a 25-year-old woman and two men aged 34 and 37.
According to the police report, armed robbers had stolen 21 sheep from a kraal on a smallholding in Martindale the previous evening. The 36-year-old owner was overpowered in his home and tied up. He has since laid charges of house robbery and stock theft.
The three suspects are scheduled to appear in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, 9 September.
