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WESTERN CAPE – A joint Hawks’ Narcotics Enforcement Bureau (SANEB) and Crime Intelligence disruptive operation on Tuesday morning led to the recovery of Mandrax tablets valued at just over a million rand. The operation resulted in the recovery of about 24 000 Mandrax tablets from an apparently abandoned vehicle that was parked near a local …
The South African Police Service has noted with great concern the recent spike in video clips on various social media platforms which in recent times have depicted cases of child kidnappings and abduction. The police have, since these postings started going viral, been trying to confirm if those depictions did or did not occur in …
GAUTENG – A 42 year old suspect is expected to appear at the Krugersdorp Magistrate Court today following his arrest on Sunday for allegedly running a clandestine laboratory. The suspect at a plot in Muldersdrift, west of Johannesburg by an integrated team comprising of the Hawks, Crime Intelligence, and K9 unit. The Hawks received information …
KWAZULU-NATAL – A 22 year old suspect is expected to appear at the Umbumbulu Magistrate Court today on two charges of alleged murder. The suspect was arrested by an integrated team compromising of the Hawks Durban Organised Crime, Crime Intelligence and the National Intervention Unit at Wybank area near Pinetown in the early hours of …
Over the past three days two men, aged 53 and 48; and two women, aged 53 and 34 years were arrested in separate incidents at the Oliver Reginald Tambo International Airport after being found in possession of substantial amounts of products suspected to be cocaine. The two men were stopped and searched as they were …
The Hawks’ Secunda Narcotic Bureau, Crime Intelligence and K9 members swept into Volksrust, Mpumalanga on Tuesday morning detained a couple aged 42 and 58 for running a clandestine dagga laboratory. The multidisciplinary team executed search and seizure warrants at a farm in Droefheid and succeeded to seize, almost 20kg of compressed hydroponic cannabis and about …
The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya has welcomed the South Gauteng High Court three life sentences plus additional hundred and six (106) years imprisonment to two Nigerian nationals for human trafficking on Friday in Johannesburg. The pair Frank Amaku (26), and Ilo Promise Somadina (25), were arrested …
Four suspects walked into the Delmas High Court in Mpumalanga yesterday where they were joined by one of South Africa’s most wanted robbers, Wellington Cenanda (39) and other accomplices to face cash in transit charges. The quartet, who were out on bail, thought it was business as usual when the court was adjourned, little did …
PRETORIA – Three suspects aged between 33 and 51, allegedly impersonating Hawks investigators, have been arrested in an undercover operation. The suspects, one of whom has been posing as a Major General, were arrested by the Serious Corruption Investigation unit at a hideout in Midrand, just outside Johannesburg, on Wednesday. DPCI members recently received a …
KWAZULU-NATAL – Three suspects aged between 25 and 45 are expected to appear at the Umzito Magistrate today for allegedly dealing in cannabis plants and oil. A multi-disciplinary team comprising of the Hawks, Crime Intelligence and Tactical Response Team arrested the three after it transpired there was group that was running a hydroponic laboratory in …