PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - In a second brazen attack on the Plettenberg Bay Post Office in just over a year, two gun-toting men robbed the post office in broad daylight, just a few metres from the local police station.
Southern Cape police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie said the suspects, wearing balaclavas and dressed like vagrants, targeted the post office in Main Street at about 14:30 last Wednesday, 13 April.
He said the men threatened the tellers with a firearm and demanded money from the safe and the tellers. The staff obliged and the robbers fled the scene with a large amount of money that they had stuffed into a handbag.
Pojie said Plett police had activated a plan to mobilise all available resources and experts to bring the suspects to book.
Forensic experts and the K9 unit combed the crime scene for information that could lead to the men's arrests.
Police have opened a case of business robbery following the incident.
In January 2021, the Plettenberg Bay Post Office was the target of criminals who made off with an undisclosed amount of money after an elaborate heist.
During this heist, the suspects pretended to check an electricity meter on a property in Kwanokuthula to gain access to the home of a post office employee with a key to the building.
When they succeeded, some of the men held the women in the house hostage, while the others entered the post office and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
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