{"id":916095,"date":"2022-01-13T23:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/police-nab-man-selling-drugs-from-fruit-and-veggie-stall-in-langa\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T23:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T23:21:05","slug":"police-nab-man-selling-drugs-from-fruit-and-veggie-stall-in-langa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/police-nab-man-selling-drugs-from-fruit-and-veggie-stall-in-langa\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nab man selling drugs from fruit and veggie stall in Langa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cape Town – An anonymous tip-off has led to the arrest of a 58-year-old suspected drug dealer in Langa who was allegedly plying his trade from a fruit and vegetable stand.<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Andr\u00e9 Traut said: \u201cPolice officers attached to the Provincial Extortion Task Team recently arrested a 58-year-old man on a charge of dealing in drugs in Langa. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOfficers were busy with crime prevention operations in the community when they received a tip-off that the suspect was using a fruit and veg stand in Bhunga Avenue to sell his illegal goods.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUpon arrival at the stall, police searched and found packs of various drugs and cash believed to be the proceeds of crime. The suspect will make his court appearance in Bishop Lavis once he is charged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Woodstock, police arrested a 33-year-old suspect for the illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to a police report, the suspect was apprehended by police in the Masakhane informal settlement in Woodstock when the area was searched and he was found in possession of a 9mm pistol without a serial number and ammunition.<\/p>\n

Traut said: \u201cSerious and violent crimes are high on our priority list. Woodstock police were quick to react to information of a suspicious armed individual on Wednesday morning. Once charged, the suspect is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate\u2019s Court to face the charges against him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cape Town – An anonymous tip-off has led to the arrest of a 58-year-old suspected drug dealer in Langa who was allegedly plying his trade from a fruit and vegetable stand. Police spokesperson Andr\u00e9 Traut said: \u201cPolice officers attached to the Provincial Extortion Task Team recently arrested a 58-year-old man on a charge of dealing […]<\/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-916095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916095","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=916095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}