R450 000 dagga seized in CT

Johannesburg - A 40-year-old man was arrested for being in possession of 15 bags of dagga with an estimated street value of R450 000 in Cape Town, Western Cape police said on Friday. Spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana said the man was arrested in the early hours of Friday in the Freedom Park informal settlement in Delft. "Unit members who had been working on information for three months followed the truck from Beaufort West through the night. As the truck stopped in the informal settlement, they pounced, arrested the suspect and confiscated the dagga." The man was expected to appear in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on... [read full story]