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Cigarette smuggler arrested on P111 near Carletonville

May 14, 2020

Adele Louw, Carletonville Herald Less than a minute

A police member with the confiscated cigarettes.

The police in Carletonville arrested a cigarette smuggler yesterday.

According to the communication officer of the police in Carletonville, WO Peter Masooa, the police were busy with a routine roadblock on the P111 road yesterday morning when they pulled a private vehicle over.

After going through the driver’s documents they opened the boot and found five boxes of Chelsea cigarettes inside.

The man was arrested and charged for being in possession of counterfeit cigarettes.

“The effort of the roadblock and stop and searches do sometimes yield good results. Persistence is the key to success,” says Carletonville’s Station Commissioner, Brigadier Marinda Theron.

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May 14, 2020

Adele Louw, Carletonville Herald Less than a minute

Liezl Scheepers

Liezl Scheepers is editor of the Parys Gazette, a local community newspaper distributed in the towns of Parys, Vredefort and Viljoenskroon. As an experienced community journalist in all fields for the past 30 years, she has a passion for her community, and has been actively involved in several community outreach projects as part of Parys Gazette's team.