After receiving a tip-off about a woman selling dagga, an Elsburg police officer followed up on the lead.<\/p>\n
He went to Nagington Street, Wadeville, and identified the woman, aged 49, by the clothes she was wearing.<\/p>
\u201cHe introduced himself to her as a police officer and asked her if he could search her room,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave her consent and the officer started his search.<\/p>
\u201cWhile he was busy searching the woman told him she sells dagga and he found some in a plastic carrier bag on top of a kitchen unit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The officer informed the woman that he had found dagga and she offered to pay him R500 to let her go.<\/p>\n
She allegedly also promised to give the officer money any time he needed cash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer arrested the woman and she was detained at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon, on charges of dealing in dagga and attempted bribery of a police officer,\u201d said Phooko.<\/p>\n
The dagga seized had an approximate value of R960 and will be destroyed as soon as the case is finalised.<\/p>\n
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