Smash and grb suspects arrested

PARKTOWN – Two males between the ages of 28 and 30 were arrested by the JMPD Undercover Reaction Unit for theft out of a motor vehicle in Parktown. While en route to report on duty officers spotted two males on the M1 South and Empire Road, Parktown running in the opposite direction with one of the males having a black cellphone in his right hand. The officers then discovered that a Red Citroën motor vehicle was smashed in the front left window and a cellphone was taken. The officers immediately gave chase on foot in pursuit of the males and managed to apprehend them along Wellington Road in Parktown. Upon searching the males a cellphone was found in their possession. The males were taken back to the crime scene where the victim positively identified them as the suspects that had smashed her vehicle stealing the cellphone.The duo was arrested and detained at Hilbrow SAPS. They will appear in court soon.