A 31-year-old man was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition when the Allanridge police investigated a reported domestic violence case.
On Friday, 2 December, the Allanridge police received a report of a man from Orkney, North West, who was in possession of an illegal firearm.
They went to the address provided and approached the suspect.
“He insisted on speaking to his two children, an eight-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl, in a locked room on the premises. Capt. Segogo Molete refused his request, and searched the man’s person.
The man resisted and additional manpower had to be used to overpower him,” says Capt. Stephen Thakeng, media liaison officer for the Lejweleputswa police.
The police found a firearm and nine rounds of live ammunition in his possession.
“He could not provide the police members with a licence for the gun, and was arrested. According to his 29-year-old girlfriend, the suspect was abusive in the relationship. The man will appear in the Odendaalsrus Magistrate’s Court on 5 December,” says Thakeng.
The district commissioner of Lejweleputswa, Maj.Gen. Lerato Molale, applauded Molete and his team for their alertness and the tactfulness in which they handled the situation which led to the suspect’s arrest and seizure of the firearm.
