Durban North weekly crime round up

Armed robbers posing as job seekers assaulted and injured an employee of a Durban North business during one of two armed robberies on businesses in the area over the past week.
Blue Security operations manager Brian Jackson said the gang of four armed men arrived at a business premises in Sasswood Road in Glen Anil  at 7.07am on Tuesday. “The men pretended that they were looking for work when they saw staff on site and then hit one of the employees on the back of the head with the butt of a gun,”he said. “The gang fled the scene without stealing anything. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment.”
In a second armed robbery in Sea Cow Lake in Inanda Road armed robbers held up a security guard at 6.17am on Wednesday. “A gang of four armed men arrived in a red golf and help up a security guard at the business premises and stole a Toyota Hino truck. There were no injuries reported,”he said.
Jackson added that housebreakers had broken into the garage of a property in Buttery Road at 6.47am on Wednesday. “The housebreakers jumped over the front palisade fence and then forced open the garage door and fled with several tools,”he said. Jackson added that housebreakers had also burgled a property in Marseilles Crescent in Briardene. “Burglars gained access via the roof of the property and forced their way through the ceiling. They fled with a laptop,”he said.
“Yesterday there was another garage break in on Collard Road. The actions of a quick thinking domestic worker, alerted Blue Security to the break-in, in progress next door and gave our officer a thorough description of the suspect which led to him being apprehended. It was discovered that the suspect was also in possension of two iPads.” said Jackson. Greenwood SAPS attended the scene of the crime.