KAROO NEWS - Crime snippets from the Karoo.
Graaff Reinet
Burglary
• On 6 December a cellphone was stolen from a house on Springbok Street.
• A tourist complained on 19 November, money and a handbag was stolen from her accommodation on Caledon Street.
• In Santaville, a television was stolen from a home. Suspects entered through the back door.
• At an accommodation business, cash, an electric welder and tools were stolen on 7 December, when the guest left his room for a while.
• At a business in the industrial area, an electrical motor was stolen on 8 December.
• At a business on Somerset Street, between 6 and 9 December, burglars gains entrance through the burglar bars and stole a door latch and sun blinds.
Assault with grievous bodily harm
• A woman and her daughter allegedly assaulted a man on Breë Street, Asherville, on 7 December.
• While visiting somebody in Umasizakhe, a woman was assaulted on 7 December by two suspects.
• On 8 December at 2.30am in Umasizakhe, two men insulted a woman, slapped her and threw a brick at her.
• A suspect on 8 December allegedly threw a complainant with stones.
• A woman stated that her boyfriend locked her up in a house on 24 November and stabbed her with a knife.
Theft out of a motor vehicle
• A VW Jetta was parked at a residence in Santaville on 6 December, when somebody stole the car radio.
• Between the evening of 8 December and the morning of 9 December, a vehicle's trailer was broken into at a guest house. Two boxes of alcohol were stolen.
Theft
Fencing was stolen from a house in Collie Koeberg on 7 December.
Aberdeen
Theft
• A 9kg gas bottle and copper pipes were stolen from the golf club on 6 December.
• An undisclosed amount of money, to purchase a beer for the complainant was given to the suspect, but he never returned.
• A woman was travelling from Graaff-Reinet to Aberdeen on 4 December, when she gave two men a lift from the hiking spot. When the complainant got home, she noticed that her laptop was stolen from the back seat.
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