{"id":917937,"date":"2022-01-20T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/hospital-driver-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-eight-boxes-of-medical-gloves-on-his-day-off\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:45:07","slug":"hospital-driver-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-eight-boxes-of-medical-gloves-on-his-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/hospital-driver-arrested-for-allegedly-stealing-eight-boxes-of-medical-gloves-on-his-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital driver arrested for allegedly stealing eight boxes of medical gloves on his day off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durban: KZN police have confirmed that a 57-year-old man has been arrested for being in possession of suspected stolen goods. <\/p>\n

According to police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele, on Wednesday afternoon police officers responded to a report of a vehicle offloading goods into another car at Sulzer Place in Phoenix, KZN. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cUpon arrival police noticed a white van driving away from a red vehicle. Police officers intercepted and searched the red vehicle. <\/p>\n

\u201cEight boxes with gloves were found in the boot. A 57-year-old man was arrested on the scene for possession of suspected stolen goods.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Prem Balram of Reaction Unit SA, officers on patrol noticed a red VW Polo and a white Ford Ranger bakkie with Department Of Health branding parked alongside each other at approximately 2.07pm. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe branded bakkie sped off upon noticing approaching Reaction Officers, while the driver of the VW Polo attempted to load boxes into his boot.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers stopped to investigate and recovered several boxes containing 8 000 gloves in the boot of the VW Polo. During an interview with the suspect, it was established that he is employed as a driver for Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe alleged that it was his day off, and while at home he received a call from a work colleague who informed him that he had stolen the gloves from a provincial storage centre in Lenham Drive, in Phoenix. The suspect then agreed to meet his colleague to collect the stolen goods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reaction Unit SA officers contacted the hospital\u2019s management who arrived at the scene within minutes. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey confirmed that the stolen boxes of gloves belonged to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Durban: KZN police have confirmed that a 57-year-old man has been arrested for being in possession of suspected stolen goods. According to police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele, on Wednesday afternoon police officers responded to a report of a vehicle offloading goods into another car at Sulzer Place in Phoenix, KZN. \u201cUpon arrival police noticed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}