{"id":97107,"date":"2019-06-26T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=97107"},"modified":"2019-06-26T14:31:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T12:31:51","slug":"five-busted-dagga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/06\/26\/five-busted-dagga\/","title":{"rendered":"Five busted for dagga"},"content":{"rendered":"

The arrest came after members of the Crime Intelligence Unit in Witbank received information of a truck carrying sugar from Malelane to Johannesburg was transporting dagga.<\/p>\n

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The members, together with the Middelburg Flying Squad, stopped and searched the truck.
\nBags of compressed marijuana to the estimated street value of R370 000 were found.<\/p>\n

The suspects were arrested and will appear in the Witbank Magistrate’s Court today on charges of dealing in dagga.<\/p>\n

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Five men between the ages of 25 to 39, three of which were foreign nationals, were arrested yesterday on the N4 near Middelburg for allegedly dealing in dagga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":97108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Press Release","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[19042,19038,19037,9,19041,10010,12898,19040,19039,10333],"class_list":["post-97107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-5-in-court-for-dealing-in-dagga","tag-5-men-arrested-for-dealing-in-dagga","tag-arrests","tag-local-crime-news","tag-crime-intelligence-unit-makes-arrest","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-sugar-truck-used-to-transport-dagga","tag-track-carrying-dagga-apprehended","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["5 in court for dealing in dagga","5 men arrested for dealing in dagga","arrests","Crime","crime intelligence unit makes arrest","local news","middelburg news","sugar truck used to transport dagga","track carrying dagga apprehended","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97107","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}