{"id":916992,"date":"2022-01-17T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/prison-warden-and-private-citizen-in-court-for-attempting-to-smuggle-dagga-whoonga-into-westville-prison\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T10:36:22","slug":"prison-warden-and-private-citizen-in-court-for-attempting-to-smuggle-dagga-whoonga-into-westville-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/prison-warden-and-private-citizen-in-court-for-attempting-to-smuggle-dagga-whoonga-into-westville-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison warden and private citizen in court for attempting to smuggle dagga, whoonga into Westville Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Durban \u2013 Two people are expected to appear in court for attempting to smuggle contraband into Westville Prison in the early hours of Saturday morning. <\/p>\n

According to a KZN police spokesperson, the suspects, aged 24 and 45, face a charge of possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said they were expected to appear before the Pinetown Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday. <\/p>\n

Department of Correctional Services Singabakho Nxumalo said a vehicle with two occupants was stopped by the patrolling officials at about 1.18am.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne person opted to flee, evading the officials who were closing in. The driver of the vehicle (private citizen) was eventually apprehended. He disclosed the identity of his associate as a Department of Correctional Services (DCS) official.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nxumalo said the vehicle was searched and a cellphone, charger, three parcels of dagga, 924 capsules of whoonga and 50 white tablets were found. <\/p>\n

Later that morning, at around 8am, day shift officials were alerted to screams for help inside the stormwater drainage at the centre. <\/p>\n

\u201cUpon inspection, the Emergency Support Team of DCS and SAPS found a Correctional Services official trapped inside the stormwater drainage which he had used as a hideout. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe official was arrested and a consignment containing mandrax capsules, mobile phones with earphones, cellphone chargers, 34 Sim cards, 669 whoonga stopes, 1.18kg dagga and other illegal items were discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nxumalo said the department was committed to ensuring contraband-free prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cDCS would like to reiterate its call: errant officials involved in the smuggling of contraband shall never be spared any mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durban \u2013 Two people are expected to appear in court for attempting to smuggle contraband into Westville Prison in the early hours of Saturday morning. According to a KZN police spokesperson, the suspects, aged 24 and 45, face a charge of possession of drugs. Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala said they were expected to appear before […]<\/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-916992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916992","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=916992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}