TWO men, who were arrested in December in Germiston and Beit Bridge for the multi-million dollar heist at the Johannesburg International Airport, appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Leonard Dube will appear in court again on March, 7 and Winston Pennington will appear next week Tuesday to apply for bail. Three other Johannesburg International Airport security guards, also arrested in connection with the robbery. also had their charges provisionally withdrawn earlier in January. Another person linked to the robbery was shot dead by police in Dawn Park, Boksburg. A gang of between five and eight men held up security guards at the airport on December 27 and forced them to load cargo onto a white Nissan one-ton truck. As they drove off, one of the robbers shot a security guard who was approaching the truck. The guard was hit in the leg. The robbers got away with R9,5-million in US dollars, $93 000 (about R1,1-million) worth of diamonds and $8 000 (about R97 600) worth of jewellery. – Sapa
Tuesday January 22, 2001