NORTH WEST - The serious Organised Crime unit of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation with members of Forensic Science Laboratory and Local Criminal Record Centre descended on a hydroponic dagga lab in Brits on Saturday and arrested the owner of a Cannabis dispensary. The…
PRETORIA - A prominent Pinetown based business woman was rescued alive in Witbank on Thursday evening after she was kidnapped for about one hundred and sixty-two days (162). The woman was kidnapped in Pinetown on the 31 May 2019, few days after her family received…
A 44 year old senior official attached to the Department of Justice was arrested yesterday following investigations into corruption and fraud at the Mpumalanga Master of the High Court. The investigation which was launched by the Serious Commercial Investigations has been probing the alleged siphoning…
NORTH WEST - The Christiana Regional Court has sentenced a 33-year-old convicted hijacker, Neo Kaweng to twelve years imprisonment on Wednesday following comprehensive investigations by the Serious Organised Crime unit of the Hawks. The judgement emanates from a truck hijacking incident that took place in…
MPUMALANGA - The Witbank Regional Court on Monday convicted Thokozani Percy Skosana (42), for 15 counts of fraud. Skosana is a former employee of the Department of Labour who was attached to the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), section. During 2012, he fraudulently started a company…
A joint multi-disciplinary team which includes Hawks’ National Priority Violent Crimes (NPVC), Crime Intelligence, Special Task Force and National Intervention Unit (NIU) arrested eleven suspects and uncovered an undisclosed amount of money yesterday. The team swiftly acted on information received about suspects allegedly involved in…
The South African Police Service is issuing a stern warning that the establishment of illegal dispensaries/outlets, online sites and social media platforms which are marketing and selling cannabis and cannabis-related products to the public remains illegal, except where specifically allowed in terms of the Medicines…
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation is asking for any information including the whereabouts of four people of interest that could help in solving the case pertaining to an alleged armed robbery at the Windsorton police station on the 2nd October 2019. It is believed…
KWAZULU-NATAL – A 37 year old man has been arrested after heroin worth an estimated R4m was seized in is lush Ballito residence, just outside Durban. The drug haul was seized on Friday during an intelligence driven operation led by the Hawks’ Narcotics Enforcement Bureau…
MPUMALANGA – Lucy Andrea Du Preez (50), John Avent (53), Piet Albertus Meintjies (36), and Maria Antoinette Le Roux (49) were arrested by members of the Hawks Serious Commercial Crime Investigation Unit on Thursday and subsequently appeared at the Nelspruit Magistrate Court for alleged fraud…