From January 2024 to date, 49 kidnappers who had demanded ransom payment from families of victims have been arrested in Gauteng, North West, and the Free State.
One FBI agent says he was home in Florida when she was hit by a crippling force “like a dentist drilling on steroids” and has not been the same person since.
The reported kidnapping of an alleged 28 gang boss last week by a Colombian drug cartel following a ‘failed international drug heist off the shores of Western Cape’ should be a clear indication that the wolves are no longer at the door, they are inside our house and getting comfortable on your couch.
Western Cape Police had a busy weekend.
Crime fighters have even raised the alarm over the use of hectic drugs among children on the Cape Flats after an eight-year-old boy was found high on four types of drugs including cocaine.
He was reported missing two weeks ago after he was picked up by an unknown man from the Pretoria West home of his mother.
Ram Bahadur Bamjon drew international attention in 2005 when tens of thousands of people turned up to see the teenager sitting cross-legged under a tree in a dense forest for nearly 10 months.
The pair of bank robbers have been found guilty along with three others nearly eight years after their arrest.
A third of Zoomers either know someone who has committed first-party fraud or done so themselves, according to this new report.
Over 10 months the police made at least 17 arrests that extended into the restaurant, construction and private business sector, and even Cape Town’s municipality, all with one criminally-flexible couple at the centre.
Many of the individuals in the case had been described anonymously as “John Does” or “Jane Does”, but now most of their real names have been released.
Doctor Bert Wolfgang Kirsten was busted trying to post prescription drugs to overseas clients.
A media crew from Protect The West Coast just revealed the true scale of the illegal mining industry in some of South Africa’s supposed pristine coastal areas.
While the idea sounds loopy, the actual science has been around since 2018.
Robbers are going for the patrons themselves, taking their smartphones and wallets, while also targeting their cars and even their homes when they are out.
Lauren Dickason was sentenced to to an effective 18 years of incarceration in a mental healthcare facility after she was found guilty of murdering her daughters.
South Africa’s ‘Grindr Gang’ has been running rampant, but at least three Sowetan men alleged to be part of the kidnapping for ransom operation appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court.
But that’s not good news for SA as the guy is under investigation here for his alleged involvement in a paedophile ring in the country’s elite schools, without facing any charges.
A group of pensioners from Strand each paid R26 000 for 14 nights in Thailand, only to be left high and dry on the eve of their departure.
The pastor claims that he spoke to God and was granted permission to sell pearly gate property for $100 per square meter.
It seems the locals became fed up with police inaction and decided to take the law into their own hands.
The Gauteng police have debunked social media claims of 13 gang-related murders, confirming that only three murders occurred in Westbury and Sophiatown.
Cape Town’s highly-trained ‘K9’ crime-fighting dog unit has a whole bunch of really good boys.
Allegedly, the plan was to “pay someone” to put something into the prison food to make everyone sick.
Gardens local, Barry Smit, managed to rough up his attackers badly enough to scare them off.
A new video has now allegedly surfaced, supposedly from a deleted YouTube account, that pictures the MP taking the racial abuse a step further.
The individual told the police he bought the identity card from a home affairs official 24 years ago.
While two cyclists managed to get away from knife-wielding suspects in Simon’s Town over the weekend, another cyclist was shot and killed in Brackenfell.
The UDM has confirmed that the MP was hijacked, kidnapped and released after a ransom of R25,000 was paid.
With P Diddy currently drawing most of the fire, disgraced actors like Kevin Spacey and Hammer are desperate to get back onto the Hollywood chatgroup – one repentant podcast at a time.