{"id":915684,"date":"2022-01-12T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/limpopo-cops-nab-over-2-500-suspects-in-7-day-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:46:08","slug":"limpopo-cops-nab-over-2-500-suspects-in-7-day-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/limpopo-cops-nab-over-2-500-suspects-in-7-day-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Limpopo cops nab over 2\u00a0500 suspects in 7-day crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CAPE TOWN \u2013 More than 2 500 suspects were arrested in Limpopo in one week, as the SAPS in joint operations clamped down on offenders.<\/p>\n

Between January 2 and 9, Limpopo SAPS\u2019s heightened joint operations resulted in 2 534 suspects aged between 19 and 47 being arrested, police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The crimes ranged from illegal liquor trading, dealing in drugs, theft, murder, assault, robberies and carjacking, among others.<\/p>\n

Mojapelo highlighted the arrest of a 39-year-old suspect who allegedly raped his 12-year-old daughter in Tshirolwe Village, about 96km south of the Beitbridge border.<\/p>\n

As well as the arrest of the wanted 28-year-old Tshepo Steven Botabota in Mankweng.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe was arrested on January 6 in Germiston, Gauteng, and was brought to Mankweng where he was positively linked to several cases of house robbery, theft out of motor vehicles, and murder and robbery with a firearm,\u201d Mojapelo said.<\/p>\n

The seven-day operation yielded a number of illegal goods being confiscated by the SAPS, including:<\/p>\n

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  • 90 735 illicit cigarettes<\/li>\n
  • 13 367g of dagga<\/li>\n
  • 20g of cocaine<\/li>\n
  • 5 stolen vehicles<\/li>\n
  • 16 dangerous weapons<\/li>\n
  • 13 firearms<\/li>\n
  • 18g of nyaope<\/li>\n
  • 377 litres of alcohol<\/li>\n
  • 37 knives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Community members and operational members were applauded by provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembi Hadebe for their determination and collaboration in fighting crime in the area.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    CAPE TOWN \u2013 More than 2 500 suspects were arrested in Limpopo in one week, as the SAPS in joint operations clamped down on offenders. Between January 2 and 9, Limpopo SAPS\u2019s heightened joint operations resulted in 2 534 suspects aged between 19 and 47 being arrested, police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo said. The crimes ranged from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}