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Crime prevention operations in the Cape Metropole yielded positive results when police arrested suspects for the possession of unlicensed firearms and drugs in Tafelsig and Mitchells Plain on Thursday.
Members of the anti-gang unit raided premises in Helderberg Street in Tafelsig at about 7pm on Thursday evening.
Police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi said during their search police found a revolver with ammunition hidden in a dustbin.
“They subsequently arrested a 28-year-old man on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.”
He said Mitchells Plain police responded to a complaint and upon arrival in Highlands Drive, Colorado, found that security guards had detained a suspect with an unlicensed firearm.
Police arrested the 32-year-old suspect who faced a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, Swartbooi said.
Police arrested the 32-year-old suspect who faced a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, Swartbooi said.
The suspects were expected to appear in the Mitchells Plain and Wynberg magistrate’s courts.
Source IOL
