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9 robbers shot as cops name 20 most wanted criminals
NINE suspected robbers sustained injuries after they were shot by police in Harare on Thursday in a crackdown, while the hunt is on for 20 suspects whom detectives have named as Zimbabwe's most wanted...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 09:42hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
ZRP unveils Top 20 most wanted criminals in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has released a list of the country's top 20 most wanted criminals. The individuals on this list are suspected to be involved in a range of criminal activities, from ...Published: 17 Dec 2023 at 08:12hrs | 1818 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Armed robberies decline in Zimbabwe
The police attribute the successful containment of armed robbery cases, primarily targeting businesses, to the coordinated efforts of law enforcement agencies and the public.In 2021, the Zimba...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:41hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabweans killed in Limpopo cash-in-transit shoot-out
Hawks have identified 16 of the 19 people killed in the recent Limpopo cash-in-transit (CIT) gang shoot-out. Guns were blazing at a luxury home in Makhado on Friday when the Hawks raided the p...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 20:13hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans killed in SA shootout
TWO Zimbabweans are believed to be among 19 people killed in a shootout with police in Makhado, South Africa over the weekend.Although South African police have not released details of the inc...Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 22:03hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean owned house where 19 cash-in-transit robbers were killed
A 19th body has been found inside the lavish house in Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt) were alleged cash-in-transit robbers were killed during a shootout with different police units on Friday....Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:28hrs | 2372 | by Staff reporter
Burglars raid Nedbank
Burglars broke into a Nedbank building in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area where they damaged three safes before stealing over US$270 000 and about R2 million, police confirmed yesterday.The...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:44hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers seize US$122,000 from cash-in-transit security in Zimbabwe
Two armed robbers pounced on a cash-in transit security company in Bulawayo's Thorngrove suburb where they seized US$122,598 cash.According to police, the suspects were armed with a pistol whi...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 18:14hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
7 armed robbers wanted for high profile cases
SEVEN suspected armed robbers who are on police's most wanted list for committing a spate of high profile criminal cases countrywide are believed to be operating and hiding in South Africa where most ...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Suspect splurged part of US$2,7 million heist loot on cars for 'prophet'
Part of the US$2,7 million seized by seven suspects from a cash-in-transit truck which was transporting ZB Bank cash from Harare to Chinhoyi was used to buy cars for a self-styled prophet in appreciat...Published: 13 May 2023 at 19:45hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Suspect splurged US$2,7 heist loot on cars for 'prophet'
Part of the US$2,7 million seized by seven suspects from a cash-in-transit truck which was transporting ZB Bank cash from Harare to Chinhoyi was used to buy cars for a self-styled prophet in appreciat...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 45% surge in crime
ZIMBABWE recorded a 45% surge in crime last year after 208 027 criminal cases were reported to the police in the last quarter of 2022, compared to 143 923 cases in the first quarter, latest Zimbabwe N...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans man survives SA horror bus crash that claimed 21 lives
One of the survivors of the bus crash that claimed at least 21 lives and left more than 60 people injured has described the accident as the "worst event" he has seen in his 59 years of life.Ja...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 17:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Gun crime rattles Zimbabwe's security sector
THE sudden spike in gun crimes across the country has pushed the security sector into panic with indications that police have since flooded the streets with detectives expected to sniff out menacing c...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 22:28hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
More police deployed to deal with festive season crimes
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has deployed more details countrywide to protect and serve citizens during the festive season.Police said the festive season is synonymous with an upsurge in...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt for US$600k Kwekwe service station robbers
A gang of 12 armed robbers raided a service station in Kwekwe on Monday and stole almost US$600 000 and R58 430.The robbers, who were armed with a pistol and an AK47 assault rifle, attacked tw...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
How Mine robbers unmasked
POLICE in Bulawayo have linked armed robbers who raided a cash-in-transit vehicle transporting nearly 12kg of gold worth US$675 000 from How Mine to Fidelity Printers and Refiners to four other armed ...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 04:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police warn armed robbers
Police will continue to apply greater pressure on those committing serious crimes, with armed robbers a particular target, Commissioner General Godwin Matanga has said. Speaking at the return of 19 po...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZB Bank heist mastermind in court
A ZB BANK internal security officer suspected to have been the mastermind of a US$2.7 million heist appeared at the Harare Magistrates court yesterday charged with armed robbery.Shadreck Njowa...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:41hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Family of US$2,7m heist mastermind arrested
The family of Shadreck Njowa, the mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arres...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police name 11 suspects wanted for How Mine robbery, reward offered
Police on Wednesday released names of 11 people they say are wanted over the October 4 gun robbery of a cash-in-transit van carrying gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo.Nationa...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
US$2,7 million ZB Bank heist mastermind arrested
The mastermind behind the ZB Bank US$2,7 million and $43 000 heist which occurred in January last year at Gwebi River Bridge along the Harare-Chirundu Road has been arrested in Harare after being on t...Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 20:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers' involvement in armed robberies worrisome
THE arrest of three soldiers in a foiled armed robbery recently following a movie-style shoot-out has again brought to the limelight the involvement of rogue elements of the uniformed forces in violen...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:56hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Robbers vanish with US$1,5m from ABC Auctions
FOUR armed robbers stormed ABC Auctions along Seke Road in Harare on Friday night and got away with US$1,5 million after subduing two security guards at the premises.Police spokesperson Assist...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
How Mine robbery suspects appear in court
THREE suspects linked to a gang that got away with How Mine's 11,9 kilogrammes of gold worth US$ 450 000 and four guns were yesterday brought to court by detectives who were seeking their further dete...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police arrest 3 suspects in probe into How Mine gold robbery
Police on Wednesday made a breakthrough in their investigation into Tuesday's gun attack on a security convoy from How Mine during which 11.9kg of gold worth US$650,000 was taken.Three men sus...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 21:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
13 armed robbers get away with How Mine gold
A GANG of 13 armed robbers yesterday ambushed three Securico Security Company cash-in-transit vehicles, about nine kilometres from How Mine and got away with four guns and 11,9 kilogrammes of gold wor...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
11.9kg gold seized as gunmen attack How Mine CIT van
Gold worth US$650,000 was snatched on Tuesday morning after heavily armed men attacked a security convoy conveying the gold from How Mine to Fidelity Printers in Bulawayo.A Securitas cash-in-t...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 22:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo CBZ bank robbed after 5 gunmen pose as customers
Five men posed as customers and then whipped out guns in a lightning-speed robbery of a CBZ bank in Bulawayo on Tuesday, witnesses said.Law enforcement sources said the robbers, who had been i...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 19:45hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Mukuru money transfer agency robbers still on the run
Police have said they are still looking for the four armed robbers who raided a Safeguard Security company cash-in-transit vehicle just outside Mukuru money transfer agency in Bulawayo, before stealin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 19:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Robbers net US$100,000 and R500,000 in Zimbabwe cash-in-transit robbery
Shots were fired as armed robbers targeted a cash-in-transit van on a busy street in Bulawayo on Monday morning.Police said US$100,000 and R500,000 was stolen as at least four armed men wearin...Published: 01 Aug 2022 at 19:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans must avoid self-destruction
WITH our motherland not completely out of the West's evil economic sanctions woods, but encouraged the warmth of some European union members, excluding this country's former coloniser Britain — whic...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
SA-registered vehicle used in Harare shoot-out recovered
The South African registered VW Polo vehicle used as a first getaway car by two suspected armed robbers who sped off during a shootout at a service station near the Exhibition Park (formerly Harare Ag...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Soldier, police officer arrested after police shootout with 'armed robbers'
A soldier and a police officer are among four suspects arrested after a police shootout with suspected armed robbers in Harare on Wednesday.A fifth suspect was killed in the incident near Show...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 18:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans in SA cash heist
ZIMBABWEAN Ambassador to South Africa, David Hamadziripi has called on Zimbabweans living in the neighbouring country to desist from criminal activities as this tarnishes the good image of fellow hard...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: 20 Zimbabweans among CIT suspects involved in deadly shootout with SA police
A gang of about 25 gunmen from KwaZulu-Natal, Zimbabwe and Botswana were intercepted by police while planning a cash-in-transit heist in Johannesburg on Monday afternoon.The confrontation happ...Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 22:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
US$2,5m bank heist: 2 jailed
THE wife of one of the robbers involved in the theft of US$2,5 million cash-in-transit for ZB Bank early last year has been jailed for an effective three years for acquiring properties with the ill-go...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Armed robberies linked to 2017 coup'
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has sensationally claimed that soldiers and police officers implicated in recent armed robbers could have stolen the firearm...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Gun crimes haunt Zimbabwe
ON December 6, former detective and lawyer, Joseph Nemaisa, made national news as his exploits in defending his family against armed intruders read like a page off James Kawara's thriller novel, Sajen...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Police raise alarm over stage-managed robberies
THE country has recorded a 22 percent increase in armed robbery cases this year compared to the same period last year with the Zimbabwe Republic Police raising alarm over stage-managed robbery inciden...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:03hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chadcombe shootout: 2 fugitive robbers nabbed
Police yesterday arrested the two armed robbers who escaped during the Monday night raid on the Chadcombe home of retired CID Homicide detective Mr Joseph Nemaisa, during which their three fellow gang...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 2 suspects from deadly robbery, recover guns at 1 Commando barracks
Two armed robbery suspects who fled from a crime scene at which three of their colleagues were shot dead by a retired detective on Monday night have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.Thi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:48hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
2 soldiers among 3 killed after ex-detective took on armed robbers holding family hostage
Two of the three men killed while robbing the home of a retired police detective were soldiers, ZimLive has learnt.Joseph Nemaisa, a 19-year CID homicide veteran, took on five thugs who were a...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:48hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Harare shootout case takes new twist
THE case of the five suspected armed robbers who stormed an ex-detective's home in Harare before three of them were gunned down in a shootout on Monday night has taken a new twist amid reports that th...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber arrested after flaunting cash on social media
A DECISION by a suspected armed robber to flaunt his ill-gotten wealth on social media backfired after he was arrested when his picture with wads of United States dollars attracted the attention of la...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'US$334k Fawcett robbery staged'
THE case in which US$334 290 was brazenly stolen from a cash-in-transit vehicle between Gweru and Kwekwe last Thursday evening, has taken a new twist with police unearthing evidence linking the Fawcet...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 23:15hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Police cash in on unlicensed vehicles
POLICE are making a killing from a recently launched operation to nab unlicensed vehicles, and those with fitted bar headlights, as well as touts.The issue was revealed in a recent police upda...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unreported robberies point police to shady dealings
POLICE have raised a red flag following a spate of robberies across the country with suspects mostly targeting businesspeople keeping large sums of money in their houses.The country has in the...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robbers loot $55 million in Bulawayo
ARMED robbers in Bulawayo stole cash and valuables worth a total of $54 962 918 between March and June this year, in a four-month crime wave that saw 32 armed robberies committed around the city....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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