{"id":223006,"date":"2019-11-07T13:06:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=223006"},"modified":"2019-11-07T15:50:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T13:50:32","slug":"dagga-valued-r30-000-confiscated-saps-germiston-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2019\/11\/07\/dagga-valued-r30-000-confiscated-saps-germiston-cbd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dagga valued at over R30\u00a0000 confiscated by SAPS in Germiston CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Members of the Germiston SAPS Task Team were out patrolling last Tuesday at about 12.30pm when they spotted a suspicious-looking green Mazda double-cab bakkie in Voortrekker Street in the Germiston CBD.<\/p>\n

The officers stopped the driver of the vehicle and asked the man if they could search it.<\/p>

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\u201cThey found dagga in packets, as well as some wrapped like traditional herbs,\u201d said Const Maxwell Mabunda, communications officer for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they asked him where he was taking the dagga, he said he was delivering it to his buyers.\u201d<\/p>

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The officers arrested the 47-year-old man on a charge of dealing in dagga.<\/p>\n

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The dagga confiscated by members of the Germiston SAPS Task Team last Tuesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The confiscated dagga is worth about R30 000 on the streets.<\/p>\n

The suspect also had an undisclosed amount of cash in his possession, which was also confiscated.<\/p>\n

The dagga and the cash were booked in at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n

The man was due to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

While the officers were busy searching the bakkie, they received a call from one of their informers that there was someone selling dagga at the Germiston Taxi Rank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they arrived they went to look for the man matching the description given to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey located the man, aged between 40 and 50 years, and asked to search him,\u201d said Mabunda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers found a plastic bag full of dagga, as well as R600 in the man\u2019s possession.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The man allegedly told police to take the money and leave him alone.<\/p>\n

He was arrested on charges of dealing in dagga and bribery of a police officer and was taken to the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n

The street value of the dagga was about R2 600.<\/p>\n

He was also due to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope these arrests will send a message to the community that it is still illegal to sell dagga in South Africa,\u201d Mabunda said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Germiston community\u2019s help we can clean our streets of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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