{"id":69466,"date":"2017-07-18T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=69466"},"modified":"2017-07-18T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:23:20","slug":"heroin-worth-millions-seized-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/18\/heroin-worth-millions-seized-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroin worth millions seized at Tollgate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to information from a trusted source, members of the Hawks, SANEB and the Middelburg station were involved in an operation which was planned after information was received about a suspicious truck.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was searched with the help of the Middelburg K9 unit and 99 kg of heroin, estimated to be worth a staggering R34 million, were found hidden in the back of the truck.<\/p>\n<p>Two Mozambican citizens were arrested and was detained in the Middelburg cells.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether they will appear in court today (Wednesday 18 July) or the day after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroin worth millions were seized after a truck from Mozambique were stopped at the Middelburg Tollgate on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":69469,"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":[],"class_list":["post-69466","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\/69466","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}