So Sunday brought news of another shopping mall heist, this time at the Blue Route Mall in Tokai.

We broke the news HERE and have since updated the story with a video.

In the latest development it turns out that one of the co-owners of Harris and D’arcy Jewellers, the store robbed on Sunday, had actually called the police and informed them that he suspected a robbery was being planned.

Ebrahim Harris became suspicious after seeing some dodgy characters eyeing out the store earlier that week. Together with mall security, they had identified some of the characters from their Facebook pictures, which linked them to another mall robbery. Harris said:

We expected [them] to hit us between 9am and 11am on Sunday…That’s their modus operandi. So we called in the cops to wait for them.

Seems like they should be caught red-handed, right? Nah buddy, because the police failed to arrive. At all. Harris once more:

They never arrived. And I understand if they were inside there would’ve been bloodshed with the shooting and all that. But I expect the police to take other precautions to catch them as they exit the mall.

The robbers even had time to make a respectable exit, inserting their parking ticket as they left the mall with a sack full of jewels and R500 000 damage in their wake.

So there you have it. Next time you call the police and they arrive, scratch their heads and leave remember to be thankful that they arrived at all.

[source:iafrica]