Hired taxi driver sells out rustlers

Police in Goromonzi on Tuesday arrested three suspected cattle rustlers linked to a spate of stock-theft cases in the area after a taxi driver who they had hired tipped law enforcement agents that he was carrying a beef carcass.

Farai Mupopa (45), Nelson Chizuzu (37) all of Epworth in Harare and Phinias Mushangwe of Chitungwiza are currently assisting police with investigations after they were “sold out” to police at a roadblock by a taxi driver who they had hired to ferry the carcass of a stolen cow.

Mashonaland East provincial police spokesperson Inspector Tendai Mwanza yesterday confirmed that police had intercepted suspected stock thieves and that they were still investigating the matter.

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