{"id":13989,"date":"2014-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/13989\/mule-caught-on-n4\/"},"modified":"2014-07-14T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:16:13","slug":"mule-caught-on-n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/09\/mule-caught-on-n4\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Mule’ caught on N4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officers of Relief A made an interesting discovery when they searched one of the occupants who acted suspiciously.<\/p>\n

According to Capt. Khanyisile Zwane, police found it strange that all the occupants of the car got out and started arguing with them, except for one. He kept quiet and remained seated inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n

When he was searched, police discovered that he was carrying a large quantity of cannabis (dagga) strapped to his body.<\/p>\n

The man, who is a Swaziland national, had a T-shirt on. A black bag containing the cannabis, was taped to his shirt and hidden under a jacket.<\/p>\n

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The value of the cannabis has not been determined yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Msanimpela Gcina Magagula, from Manzini in Swaziland, was arrested on Sunday night and appeared in court.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The weight and value of the cannabis found was not known before deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another suspected drug mule was caught on the N4 freeway when a vehicle was pulled over for a routine check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":13991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1882,1093,1478,1548,1883],"class_list":["post-13989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-dagga","tag-drugs","tag-middelburg-police","tag-n4-highway","tag-routine-check"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["dagga","drugs","Middelburg Police","N4 Highway","Routine check"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}