A Bar proprietor and six assistants have been bust with 15 dead sheep and four live ones.
This comes after a sum of 69 sheep were accounted for taken on two ranches on Monday, 12 December in Hennenman, Free State.
Commander Steven Thakeng said cops got data regarding the sheep that were being cut into pieces at the rear of a bar in Bailey Road in Reitzpark, Welkom.
During the pursuit in and outside the bar, the police found a white Hyundai bakkie and a dim Portage Officer with 15 sheep remains. The four sheep that were as yet alive were seized.
“The police got the suspects as they were cutting the sheep with a butchery saw. The proprietor of the taken sheep was called to the scene and he had the option to recognize the sheep as his property. The held onto creatures were given to him,” said Thakeng.
The suspects, matured somewhere in the range of 37 and 53, were captured for ownership of thought-taken animals.
Lejweleputswa group leader Significant General Lerato Molale said thanks to the inhabitants of Reitzpark for confiding in the police with the data that prompted the captures and seizure.
Free State hostile to stock robbery executive Mahlomola Maine said the high pace of stock burglary in the territory adversely affects agribusiness.
“Our area depends on farming for monetary turn of events. We require the police to focus on stock burglary cases.
“There is a developing business of stock burglary among Mzansi and adjoining nations,” said Maine.