Ram-raid rustlers bust on N1
2012-08-04 23:20
VICTIMS OF A RAM RAID? Eight rustled sheep were found in a bakkie in an N1 traffic-stop.
VENTERSBURG - A tight-knit gang of three rustlers hustling doggedly down the N1 near here have been pulled over with a small herd sheep corralled in their bakkie.
Two of the eight animals were already dead.
The gang was legging it after a pre-dawn raid on a farm near Kroonstad in the Free State but were arrested after a police grilling earned only a woolly explanation of why they were carrying the makings of a monster braai.
BUSTED RUSTLE
A police spokesman said: "The driver and his passengers were asked about the sheep but could not give a proper account of their ownership."
The bakkie was confiscated and, by hook or by crook, the busted rustlers will appear before a Ventersburg magistrate on Monday – assuming they don’t manage to leg it again.
A farmer, who didn’t want to be named, said later in the day: "This time, the police were right on the mutton."