A Namibian Truck Driver who has been on the run for more than four weeks after the alleged theft of a consignment of beer crates has just been arrested.
Possibly trying to play ‘Smokey and Bandit,’ on the highway, the trucker is said to have made off with the liquor heist valued at more than half-a-million Namibian Dollars.
The beer consignment was destined for some business outlets in the Oshana Region of Namibia.
It was reported that the trucker, driving a vehicle with registration numbers N 57826 W was supposed to deliver the crates of beer but disappeared with the consignment which belonged to his employer.
The Namibian Police report that the cargo disappearance or maybe theft, occurred between Okahandja and Oshakati on the 27th of April 2025.
Later, the case was to be filed at Otjiwarongo but eventually got transferred to Oshakati.
It is alleged that the 26-year-old suspect, who is a resident of Goreangab suburb in Windhoek, was given a consignment of Carling Black Label beer to deliver to Woermann Brock at Oshakati.
He was also expected to deliver the same at Woermann Brock in Ondangwa. The beer was from Windhoek.
But the suspect allegedly stopped in Otjiwarongo for four hours without much explanation, but possibly to offload part of the cargo.
The driver later again stopped his truck in Oshakati where he stayed for five hours, being suspected to be downloading the remaining consignment of beer.
Afterwards the trucker drove off to Omuthiya in the Oshikoto Region, where he stopped the truck on the side of the road, abandoning the vehicle which by that time was already empty.
After leaving his truck in the wilderness, the driver trekked and hitchhiked his way to Oshikuku town in the Omusati Region, where he disappeared for over four weeks.
Though the entire consignment of beer crates was valued at 558,740 Namibian Dollars, the money which was recovered when the suspected trucker eventually got arrested, amounted to 181,600 Namibian Dollars.