{"id":93004,"date":"2019-04-24T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=93004"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:17:56","slug":"father-son-allegedly-caught-possession-rhino-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/04\/24\/father-son-allegedly-caught-possession-rhino-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"Father and son allegedly caught in possession of rhino horn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Dineo Sekgotodi, provincial spokesperson for the Hawks, says that they have taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n

Alberto Nharreluga (46) and his son Ernesto Nharreluga (26) were pulled over on the N4 by members of the Middelburg Flying Squad on Saturday 20 April.<\/p>\n

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Five people were arrested in possession of rhino horn over the Easter weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

They were travelling towards Middelburg and was stopped between Wonderfontein and the Alzu Petroport.<\/p>\n

Capt. Sekgotodi said that rhino horn as well as a fire arm and ammunition were found in their possession.<\/p>\n

Father and son will have to stay behind bars until their bail application next week Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Two men and a woman were also arrested for possession of rhino horn in Komatipoort over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n

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A father and son who are accused of being in possession of rhino horn, have appeared in the Belfast Magistrate Court this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":93007,"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":[1592,1453,21966,17832,901,4083,10195,8396],"class_list":["post-93004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alzu-petroport","tag-belfast","tag-middelburg","tag-mozambican-national","tag-n4","tag-rhino-horn","tag-smuggling","tag-wonderfontein"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Alzu Petroport","Belfast","middelburg","mozambican national","n4","Rhino horn","smuggling","wonderfontein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93004","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}