Overview
- Officers responding in Mulbarton found eight half-naked teenage boys who were identified as foreign nationals unable to speak English.
- Police were told two additional boys had been taken in a blue VW Jetta, prompting an interception and pursuit into the Johannesburg CBD.
- The chase ended on Commissioner Street with the arrest of a 47-year-old foreign national and the rescue of the two remaining boys.
- Authorities listed charges of being an illegal immigrant and suspected trafficking in persons, with further investigative steps under way.
- The operation involved JMPD, SAPS Mondeor and the Hawks’ Trafficking in Persons section, drawing praise from Gauteng Hawks leadership.