KAROO NEWS - Crime news from the last week:
Graaff Reinet
Theft from vehicle
- Between 7 and 8 October, a battery was stolen from a car on Willie Deysel Street.
Assault with grievous bodily harm
- On 30 September at 5.30pm, a man was stabbed in his hand in Umasizakhe, while trying to resolve a personal matter.
- A man assaulted a woman in Santaville with a spade on 12 October at 10.30pm.
Theft
- A security gate was stolen at Collie Koeberg Stadium on 9 October. The security guard on duty discovered it at around 2am.
- On 4 October at about 11pm, a cellphone was stolen from a property on Caledon Street.
Stock theft
- One Dorper sheep was stolen and slaughtered between 12 and 14 October on a farm in Nieu-Bethesda.
Malicious damage to property
- A suspect arrived at a Kroonvale resident and stabbed all the tyres of a car.
Burglary
- Between 9 and 10 October a business in Eliteview, Umasizakhe, was forced open and R3 000 worth of groceries were stolen.
- On 10 October, a residence in Nandi Village's kitchen door was forced open and groceries to the value of R 1 200 were stolen
- Between 12 and 13 October, somebody entered a residence on Donkin Street by breaking a window and stole a cellphone, external hard drive and a memory stick.
- A substantial amount of alcohol was stolen from a business at Market Square.
- A television, laptop, camera, cellphone and other electrical equipment were stolen from a home on Stockenstroom Street, on 13 October.
Aberdeen
Business robbery
- On 2 October, two men entered a business, threatened the owner with a knife and robbed him of cigarettes and a cellphone.
Theft
- Clothes were stolen from a home on Cathcart Street on 12 October.
Possession of drugs
- On 13 October at 8.45pm, a policeman found a quarter of mandrax tablet and tik on a suspect.
Burglary
- A television and two speakers were stolen from a home on Cathcart Street, between 19 September and 12 October.
- Between 10 and 11 October, groceries were stolen from a pre-school.
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