A City Parks employee has appeared in the Booysens Magistrates Court in Gauteng on Wednesday for his alleged link to cash-in-transit heists .
Mandlakhe Nhlakanipho Jali, 40, was arrested at the City Parks offices in Braamfontein by members of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as Hawks) on Tuesday, September 3.
The provincial spokesperson, Captain Lloyd Ramovha said this comes after an investigation into two incidents of cross-pavement cash-in-transit robberies that occurred two weeks apart within the Booysens policing precinct.
The Germiston-based Serious Organised Crime Investigation from its component National Priority Violence Crime (NPVC) ensued after two cases of armed robbery were registered at Booysens police station on June 11 and 23, 2023, respectively, Ramovha said.
On Sunday, June 11, 2023, in the first incident, a Fidelity Cash Solution guard was accosted after collecting a cash box with an undisclosed amount of money from Southdale Mall at the Pick n Pay.
