Police arrest suspects before committing robbery

Oscar Thomas
19 November 2014

Five suspects between the ages of 35 and 45-year-old appeared in the Germiston Magistrate Court on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and possession of an unlicensed firearm. 

The suspects planned to rob a restaurant called Mike’s Kitchen in Gauteng, however when police received a tip-off of the planned robbery they immediately descended on the scene.

The Police’s Solomon Makgale said two of the suspects are South African and three are Zimbabwean nationals.

"We recovered one firearm and one vehicle that they had used to go to the scene Makgale added.