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R2m dagga bust in truck
13/12/2006 12:19 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A 35-year-old man was arrested at the Ficksburg border post on Tuesday after he was found with bags of dagga with an estimated street value of R2m, Free State police said.
Constable Mmako Mophiring said on Wednesday two police officers and a SA Revenue Service official discovered the bags hidden behind a false panel inside a white Toyota truck.
He said the two men, who were travelling in the truck, were requested to open the back of the truck.
"They searched the truck and found it empty but became suspicious of the false panel and ordered the driver to stop on the side of the road, and the truck was thoroughly searched," Mophiring said.
The false panel was cut open with an angle grinder and 87 bags of dagga were found and confiscated.
The other man who was in the truck fled the scene, he said.
Mophiring said it was later discovered that the truck, which has a GP registration number, belongs to a man from Orlando West in Soweto.
The man, who was arrested, was expected to appear in the Ficksburg magistrate's court on Thursday.
- SAPA
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