{"id":82635,"date":"2015-03-04T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82635\/police-swoop-on-drug-lab-and-confiscate-r2-million-worth-of-mandrax\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T11:34:12","slug":"police-swoop-on-drug-lab-and-confiscate-r2-million-worth-of-mandrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/04\/police-swoop-on-drug-lab-and-confiscate-r2-million-worth-of-mandrax\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Police swoop on drug lab and confiscate R2-million worth of mandrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mandrax with an estimated value of R2-million has been confiscated by police in Buhle Park, Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>The bust took place at about 11.15am, on Tuesday, by members of the Hawks and the Johannesburg Flying Squad, who were conducting operations in the Buhle Park area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officers raided a house in the area and discovered a large amount of mandrax tablets and mandrax powder.<\/p>\n<p>Two men, aged 35 and 36, were arrested on the scene.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is alleged that the men were manufacturing the drug on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>They were detained at the Elsburg Police Station and are due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon, where they will face charges of dealing in and being in possession of an undesirable dependence producing substance.<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53041\/k9-unit-busts-man-with-drugsorman-found-with-drugs-in-rietfontein-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">K9 unit busts man with drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/80417\/man-arrested-for-the-possession-of-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for the possession of drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='0891f5ce1c97f4207820d208852e4133'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug lab in Buhle Park raided, police confiscate mandrax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1804,989,6745,1112,979,969,2266,6744,6743,2734],"class_list":["post-82635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-buhle-park","tag-crime","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-hawks","tag-johannesburg-flying-squad","tag-mandrax","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["buhle park","crime","drug bust","drugs","germiston","germiston city news","hawks","johannesburg flying squad","Mandrax","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}