Acting on a tip-off on Wednesday evening, Amangwe Visible Policing and Stock Theft Units arrested suspects and recovered stolen livestock, as well as a large quantity of dagga.
The officers were busy with a joint operation when they received information that two males were driving cattle in the Nyezane area. Once there, they found that the suspects had already crossed into the Ngonyameni area. They were still driving the cattle.
The officers waited for them at a secluded location along the way and upon searching them, they recovered a pistol and ammunition. The pistol was unlicensed.
Seven cattle were also recovered, which were stolen in the Emmaus area of Bergville.
The suspects will stand trial for being in possession of stolen stock and an unlicensed pistol.
While busy with the same operation, officers searched two homesteads in the Slimangamehlo and Mnyangweni areas. Dagga weighing a total of 83.38kg was recovered.
A male and a female were arrested for being in possession of dagga.
All the suspects appeared in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court yesterday (September 8).
The dagga is valued at R126,000.
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