By Own Correspondent- Police details last week nabbed part of a criminal gang who stole 1 000kilograms of electricity cables in Goromonzi.

However, some of the criminals escaped arrest and the Zimbabwe Republic Police has appealed for information on the whereabouts of the suspects.

Mashonaland East police spokesperson, Tendai Mwanza confirmed the development and revealed that the police were notified of the heist while the group was in the process of looting the electricity copper cables at Arcturus Mine and loading them into three vehicles.

Said Mwanza:

“The detectives swiftly responded after teaming up with police officers from Goromonzi. On arrival at the scene, the police saw the suspects loading copper cables into three motor vehicles.

On realising that the police details had surrounded them, the suspects sped off towards Harare along the Arcturus Road with the police in pursuit before the suspects were blocked at the Lafarge Cement factory in Mabvuku.

The vehicles were searched and ten rolls of Zesa copper overhead conductors and cables, bolt cutters and spanners were recovered.”