We complain A LOT about our police force, so we thought it would only be fair to point out when they do a great job as well. This arrest, in co-operation with international law enforcement agencies, is one such story!

Martin Evans, 52, was captured in Johannesburg and is thought to be a “real scalp” for the National Crime Agency (NCA).

According to the NCA, investigators had alerted Interpol that Evans was in South Africa after they had received intelligence of his whereabouts.

This led to a surveillance operation being carried out by South African police, which led authorities to a housing complex in Johannesburg where officers were able to swoop on Evans while he was in his car on Saturday night.

In reaction to the arrest, Hank Cole, Head of International Operations for the NCA, said: “The exceptional level of collaboration and intelligence sharing with the South African Police Service led to the capture of Evans.”

Evans was out on a day-release and when he did not return, the search for him began. He was serving a sentence for drug trafficking and massive amounts of fraud including several scams. Among his most notorious scams (following the failure of his business many years ago) and in fact the very first of his dabbling in the underbelly of business was a fake ostrich farm. All the way back in 1995 he managed to make millions from businessmen investing in his fake farm.

Well done SAPS, nice catch. Now let’s work on catching our own most wanted…

Check out The Independent for more details on this story.