{"id":2830,"date":"2013-11-12T07:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2013-11-12T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T05:54:32","slug":"r2-6m-worth-of-dagga-seized-in-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/12\/r2-6m-worth-of-dagga-seized-in-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"R2.6m worth of dagga seized in bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2831\" alt=\"saps\" src=\"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/saps-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Johannesburg &#8211; A man was arrested in Uniondale on Monday for possession of dagga with an estimated street value of R2.6m, Western Cape police said.<\/p>\n<p>The dagga, weighing about 2.6 tons, was found concealed in 73 bags inside a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, which was stopped and searched by the highway patrol on the road between Oudtshoorn and Uniondale, said police spokesperson Malcolm Pojie.<\/p>\n<p>He said the dagga was believed to have been destined for distribution in the Cape Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man would appear in the Uniondale Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; SAPA<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"R2.6m%20worth%20of%20dagga%20seized%20in%20bust\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; A man was arrested in Uniondale on Monday for possession of dagga with an estimated street value of R2.6m, Western Cape police said. The dagga, weighing about 2.6 tons, was found concealed in 73 bags inside a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, which was stopped and searched by the highway patrol on the road between Oudtshoorn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}