A BULAWAYO syndicate of thieves, who broke into people’s cars, was arrested after one of them gave away information about his location to detectives through Facebook.
Fayton Zata (27) of Mabuthweni and Thabo Mthombeni (29)
from Mpopoma went on a car breaking spree at the Ascot shopping complex last
Saturday before they were arrested on Monday.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said
the two were using a scissors to break into cars.
“On April 24 at 11pm, the two were spotted at Ascot
shopping centre, Bulawayo, by alert security guards tampering with some motor
vehicles, which were parked in the parking bays,” Ncube said.
“The security guards observed that the accused persons were
committing theft from a motor vehicle and were using a scissors to open the car
door as well as smashing windows.”
He said the security guards tried to apprehend the suspects
but they escaped, leaving behind their motor vehicle, a red Honda Fit,
registration number ACO 9550 at the scene.
Ncube said the abandoned motor vehicle was searched and a national identity card, a driver’s
licence belonging to Zata,
a pair of scissors and a set of number plates AES
4028 were recovered.
He said investigations showed that the number plates that
were fitted on the abandoned Honda Fit (ACO 9550) belonged to a Mercedes benz
ML 270.
The number plates were stolen on April 20 from a Benz
vehicle parked at the Cold Storage Commission premises in Belmont.
Ncube said police searched for Zata’s profile on Facebook
using the recovered identity documents and managed to communicate with him. He
eventually disclosed his address, leading to his arrest.
He said Zata admitted that he committed the offence and
implicated Mthombeni together with three others identified as Bhekani, Geribee
and Farai, whom he said were still at large. Standard
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