EX-COP SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS FOR THEFT OF MOTOR VEHICLE Lefa Sydney Isaacs, aged 32, will spend the next eight years’ behind bars after he was found guilty of motor vehicle theft. On the 6th of November 2012 Constable Lefa Isaacs, stationed at the Maseru Port of Entry, caught a lift with someone driving a Ford Cortina. The driver stopped and got out of his bakkie to speak to a friend, while the conversation was going on Constable Isaacs got into the driver’s seat and drove off with the vehicle. The accused drove to Lesotho via the Van Rooyen’s Port Of Entry and then abandoned the vehicle in Mafeteng. Lesotho Police found the vehicle and informed the Ladybrand Vehicle Identification Section (VIS). A case of theft of motor vehicle was registered and was assigned to WO Hannes Klopper of the Ladybrand VIS. Klopper received information which directed him straight to the accused who was in Botshabelo at that stage. WO Klopper went to Botshabelo and arrested the accused. During the court proceedings the accused was granted bail. Constable Isaacs was charged departmentally and he was found guilty and dismissed from the South African Police Service. The Ladybrand Regional Court then found him guilty of theft of motor vehicle and sentenced him to eight years’ direct imprisonment. In another case a 33-year-old Edward Maribe from Turflaagte in Bloemfontein was found guilty and sentenced to three years’ direct imprisonment for being in possession of a stolen vehicle. Mr Maribe stole a Nissan Sentra from a parking bay near a mall in Fauna, Bloemfontein. The vehicle was reported as stolen and members of the Maseru Port Of Entry noticed the stolen vehicle approaching the border and arrested the accused. The case was also assigned to WO Hannes Klopper from Ladybrand VIS. The Ladybrand Regional Court found Mr Maribe guilty of possession of a stolen vehicle last week and sentenced him to three years’ direct imprisonment.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:04:45 +0000
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