In Ekurhuleni, a police operation on Friday led members to a house in Alberton where a suspect was arrested after being found in possession of three unlicensed pistols with live ammunition.
In a separate case, police arrested a 38-year-old man in Zonkizizwe, Katlehong, who was found in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect was involved in illegal mining at Crown Mines, Peters said. “Meanwhile in a separate operation on Thursday 17 September 2020, two rifles and a pistol were seized from a crime scene in Centurion after police were involved in a shootout with the suspects, where two suspects were fatally wounded and two police members injured,” Peters said in a statement.
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