Four arrested at border post for rhino horns hidden in engine
Police then insisted the bonnet be opened and the driver opened it. Two horns were stashed in the engine compartment.
The rhino horns were lodged in the vehicle’s engine.
Four alleged rhino poachers appeared at the Mahamba Periodical Court in Mpumalanga today after they were arrested for unlawful possession of two rhino horns.
While the team was conducting a search at the vehicle check point, they stopped a silver Mercedes with four occupants, Lowvelder reported.
The suspects were arrested
They searched the vehicle as well as the occupants.
Police requested the driver to open the bonnet but he told them that it did not open.
Police then insisted and the driver opened it. Two horns were stashed in the engine compartment.
The owner of the vehicle tried to evade arrest by running into the nearby bushes but he was outrun and arrested together with the other suspects.
Police confiscated the vehicle and the horns.
The suspects were remanded in custody until 9 April 2017.
– Caxton News Service
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