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PLETTENBERG BAY NEWS - An 87-year-old Plettenberg Bay local was attacked during a robbery at his Keurbooms Heights home this week.
This is the second attack in Plett in one week targeting an elderly resident, after Hospice nurse Penny Cumming was murdered in her Schoongesicht home on the previous Monday.
Police spokesperson Captain Marlene Pieterse said three unknown armed men stormed the man’s home when he opened his kitchen door for his cat between 20:00 and 22:00 on Monday 5 February.
Pieterse said two of the suspects wore balaclavas. “They attacked the victim with a crowbar and then tied him up before taking him to a top floor bedroom.”
She added that the suspects then proceeded to ransack the house and fled with a flat screen television, two watches, a wallet, various credit cards and R1 600 in cash.
They also made off with the victim’s A-Class Mercedes Benz.
Plettenberg Bay Crime Prevention Association (PBCPA) operations head Otto Olivier said the injured resident managed to alert Fidelity ADT, his security service provider, who in turn responded and alerted the local police and ambulance services.
“The victim was stabilised and taken to hospital,” Olivier said.
A vehicle description and number plate was posted on the PBCPA react group early on Tuesday morning.
“Not much later Blue Bay guard Ronald Rusirevu spotted the vehicle in Kwanokuthula and sent out an alert.”
Olivier said PBCPA members made their way to the area and spotted the vehicle with suspects in it.
“The suspects stopped and jumped out of the vehicle and fled in between houses.”
Police, Bitou law enforcement, various PBCPA members – including Plett Security, the K9 unit, Smhart Alarms, Blue Bay Guards, Fidelity ADT, Wittedrift and Plett neighbourhood watch groups – took up position at all the entrance and exit routes of Kwanokuthula and searched for the suspects.
“The suspects were tracked down with information received by a Bitou law enforcement officer. The officer was off duty, but made himself available to assist.”
Pieterse said two suspects were found and arrested and the vehicle was recovered in Quba Street.
The case is still under investigation.
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