The assortment of rat poisons and dangerous equipment was enough to convince the police that they had made a breakthrough in the ongoing killing of dogs and break-ins in Crystal Park, Benoni, and parts of Joburg.
“We have to profile them and see whether they can be linked to the crimes,” Tryna Maritz of the Crystal Park police station said on Monday.
Various suburbs in Joburg and across Gauteng have reported a spike in incidents of dog poisoning in recent years.
In Crystal Park, 15 dogs have been poisoned and residents have had their houses and cars broken into since March.
In most of the cases, the criminals lace meat with poison, which they feed to the dogs by throwing it into the yard. The animals would immediately fall ill, making it easy for the criminals to get access to the premises undetected.
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