{"id":23683,"date":"2015-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/23683\/five-nabbed-for-counterfeit-cigarettes\/"},"modified":"2015-01-16T08:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T06:34:02","slug":"five-nabbed-for-counterfeit-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/16\/five-nabbed-for-counterfeit-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five nabbed for counterfeit cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warrant Officer Lucas Matentjie, Constable Wynand Sekwane and Detective Constable Michael Mothapo followed up information which led them to the farm in the Stoffberg area.<\/p>\n<p>In a store room they found 152 boxes (with 50 boxes of Pacific Blue cigarettes inside every box) to the value of over a million. There were also 46kg of daggaplants in the store room. A truck and a BMW were also confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Limbada (20), Anton Mogale Letladi (28), Mohamed Pehir Patel (31), Ubaid Randera (32) and Johannes Ntuli Dlalisa (63) appeared in the Laersdrif court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bail were denied and they appeared on Thursday again for bail application.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of possession of illegal cigarettes and bribery and the unlawful planting of dagga plants are being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 SARS Customs Enforcement went to the farm with the police to confiscate the cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laersdrif Police arrested five men on a farm in the Stoffberg area and confiscated counterfeit cigarettes with a street value of more than a R1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":23684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683","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=23683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}