{"id":1746,"date":"2026-02-20T02:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2026-02-20T02:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T02:11:04","slug":"teen-arrested-over-us2-137-flea-market-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/teen-arrested-over-us2-137-flea-market-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Arrested Over US$2 137 Flea Market Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Fanuel Chinowaita<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jayden Domingo<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Chipinge, 20 February 2026 – <\/strong>A 19-year-old Chipinge man has been arrested in connection with a series of thefts at Chipinge Musika Flea Market, where clothing and footwear valued at US$2 137 were stolen over a three-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police confirmed that Jayden Domingo (19) of DMB location, Gaza, Chipinge, is facing theft charges as defined in Section 113 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complainants in the matter are Sipiwe Mhlanga (33) of St Kelvin, Chipinge and Hardlife Gwenzi (25) of Gaza \u2018O\u2019 location, Chipinge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is alleged that between November 30, 2025 and February 10, 2026, Domingo unlawfully entered a secured yard at Chipinge Musika Flea Market on three separate occasions and stole sacks containing assorted clothing and shoes belonging to the two vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Narrating the incident, Mhlanga said she later received information about the whereabouts of her goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI received a tip-off that my stolen clothes were in Gaza location. I quickly teamed up with others and we alerted the police,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added, \u201cAfter informing the police, investigations were carried out which led to the arrest of the suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police arrested Domingo on February 16, 2026. Following his arrest, a substantial quantity of the stolen property was recovered.
Police sources said, \u201cProperty worth US$1 461 has been recovered so far and investigations are still in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Property stolen from Mhlanga was valued at US$1 487 and included dozens of clothing items such as T-shirts, jeans, skirts, trousers, bras, socks, flip flops, school socks, satchels, travelling bags and safety shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goods stolen from Gwenzi were valued at US$650 and comprised jean trousers, skirts, tops, T-shirts, ladies\u2019 pants and footwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fanuel Chinowaita Chipinge, 20 February 2026 – A 19-year-old Chipinge man has been arrested in connection with a series of thefts at Chipinge Musika Flea Market, where clothing and footwear valued at US$2 137 were stolen over a three-month period. Police confirmed that Jayden Domingo (19) of DMB location, Gaza, Chipinge, is facing theft…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}