TWO high school pupils were nabbed by the metro police on Friday after dagga with a street value of R2 000 was discovered in a school bag.
A vigilant community patroller sighted a learner throwing a school bag over the perimeter fence at Tembisa Secondary School to another learner.
“This rasied his suspicions as other learners were using the gate to enter the school’s premises with their bags,” metro police spokesman, Chief Supt Wilfred Kgasago, said.
“The community patroller alerted the EMPD crime prevention unit of the suspicious-looking bag. It turned out that the patroller’s hunch was right. On searching the school bag, the metro police found it to be fully loaded with dagga weighing almost a kilogram.
The two 15-year-old school boys, who were identified as the owners of the dagga-laden bag, led the metro police to the dealer who used them to peddle dagga at the school.
Three persons who were pointed out at a house in Phomolong by the two learners were arrested while the teens were released into the custody of their parents as they were under-age.
The trio, two women in their early forties and a 25-year-old man, were charged with possession and dealing in dagga at Tembisa Police Station.
