Gordon’s Bay man arrested for possession of Abalone
Jaimie-faith Poonah
18 February 2015
18 February 2015
On Tuesday police members from
the Cape Town K9 Unit responded to information of a vehicle allegedly
transporting abalone from Buffelsajag to Cape
Town
Police spotted a silver BMW
and pulled the vehicle off the road.
FC van Wyk said: “Upon
searching the vehicle the members recovered 15 bags of shacked abalone. The
driver a 26-year-old man from Gordon’s Bay, was arrested and taken to Somerset
West SAPS for detention where the abalone was counted by officials from the
Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.”
Van Wyk continued saying: “It
amounted to 1958 units with a street value estimated at approximately R 1
million.’
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