{"id":965864,"date":"2024-07-16T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965864"},"modified":"2024-07-16T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:09:05","slug":"saps-anti-kidnapping-task-team-arrests-14-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/saps-anti-kidnapping-task-team-arrests-14-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPS anti-kidnapping task team arrests 14 suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Police Services\u2019 (SAPS) anti-kidnapping task team in Gauteng arrested 14 suspects in Greenstone Park and Sandton, Johannesburg, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, including three Chinese nationals and two Mozambicans, allegedly kidnapped a Zimbabwean businessman near his workplace on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says that the anti-kidnapping task team, with the help of other SAPS units and private security partners, found the victim safe and alive at an address in Diepkloof, Soweto.<\/p>\n<p>The team traced the first eight suspects to an apartment in Greenstone Park and arrested the remaining suspects in Sandton.<\/p>\n<p>Police seized multiple speed point machines, a large sum of cash withdrawn from the victim\u2019s bank account, and two firearms, one of which was stolen during a house robbery in Linden in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, SAPS has intercepted several kidnappers linked to syndicates targeting businessmen for ransom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | Spate of kidnappings in South Africa:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ceT4-o9sxDA?si=oqZWXbc5-cLriffI\" width=\"1060\" height=\"615\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sapsHQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#sapsHQ<\/a> Three Chinese nationals and two Mozambicans are among fourteen kidnappers that have been arrested by the South African Police Service (SAPS) anti-kidnapping task team in Gauteng. The fourteen are alleged to have kidnapped a Zimbabwean businessman on Sunday near his\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ib314iQINU\">pic.twitter.com\/Ib314iQINU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SA Police Service   (@SAPoliceService) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAPoliceService\/status\/1812904223794692444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspects allegedly kidnapped a Zimbabwean businessman near his workplace on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":965865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}