PICS:GTEL Phone shop robbers CAPTURED after displaying sudden lavish lifestyles public

29 Nov 2019, 10:43 by Sharon Chirisa

GTEL Phone shop robbers CAPTURED after displaying sudden lavish lifestyles

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Notorious armed robbers landed behind bars after investigating detectives closed in on them.

The robbers started living a lavish lifestyle overnight and recklessly spending money in public places.

CCTV pictures sold out notorious armed robbers who recently broke into a Mutare GTel shop and stole high-end cellphones valued at more than $70 000 in a movie-style smash-and-grab 90-second robbery.

Detectives in Harare who were doing their daily surveillance duties last Friday in Hopley Farm got suspicious of the way the one of the suspects was spending cash at a drinking spot.

The arrested him intending to question him on the source of his income and after interrogation he sold out his other gang members and explained to the cops how they executed the break-ins.

Officer Commanding Manicaland Police Commissioner Dr Wiklef Makamache confirmed the arrest of three of the gang members.

Comm Makamache, however, said one of the robbers was arrested after he took some of the stolen cellphones to a dealer in Harare with the intention of flushing out their systems in a bid to avoid detection.

Comm Makamache said investigations done to date show that the arrested three suspects and the fugitive two accomplices all live in Harare and they only travelled to Mutare on November 7 to commit the GTel robbery.

The GTel robbery was done under a minute and 28 seconds.