Pinetown resident stabbed during home invasion

A Pinetown resident was stabbed during a home invasion in Willow Crescent in the early hours of this morning.
Blue Security operations manager Brian Jackson said the resident had woken up to get a glass of water from the main building on the property, when balaclava-wearing armed robbers ambushed him. The incident occurred at around 12.20 am.
“The robbers assaulted him and stabbed him in the chest as he was trying to fight them off. They demanded his car keys and managed to drive his vehicle from the yard into the driveway, but then crashed and fled the scene on foot,” Jackson said. “Netcare 911 paramedics attended the scene and transported the victim to a nearby hospital. Pinetown SAPS and metro police attended the scene of the crime.”
Armed response officers working closely with the police arrested several alleged business burglars in Pinetown yesterday.
Blue Security media and community liaison officer Andreas Mathios said armed response officers arrested two housebreakers in Oppenheimer Street at around 9.38am. “Suspects broke the palisade fence and gained entry onto a business premises where they then broke into a truck that was parked on the property. While the suspects were attempting to leave the property with tools stolen from the truck, our officers arrived and arrested one of the suspects on the property. With the help of the SAPS K9 unit, they chased and arrested the second suspect who tried to flee the scene,” he said.
Both suspects were handed over to the Pinetown SAPS who attended the scene of the crime.
Mathios said a housebreaker was also arrested in an earlier incident after suspects broke into a business premises in Blair Road at around 8.11am. “Suspects had cut a fence to gain entry and then climbed up external plumbing pipes to gain entry to the property through the roof. Our officer arrived at the scene and arrested one of the suspects who was attempting to flee. A computer screen was recovered,” he said.
Mathios said the suspect was handed over to the Pinetown SAPS.