Cape Town – An 82-year-old pensioner was reportedly arrested after police discovered dagga worth the street value of almost R6 000 strapped around her body in Mpumalanga on Thursday.
According to Times Live, Tonga police were busy with their duties of patrolling on Thursday morning at Magudu in Nkomazi, near the borderline between Eswatini and SA, when they spotted a minibus with some commuters.
They stopped it and conducted a search of the minibus and its commuters. They discovered the old woman with dagga wrapped around her body.
“The dagga seized from her was weighing at least 3.88kg and estimated at the street value of almost R6 000. She was arrested and charged for dealing in dagga,” said Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala as quoted by the report.
The pensioner made an appearance before the Nkomazi magistrate’s court on Friday after spending the night behind bars.
The case docket was struck off the roll by the magistrate. The dagga was confiscated.
IOL reported that Mpumalanga police commissioner Lieutenant-General Semakaleng Daphney Manamela was shocked at the incident.
“It is really a call for concern to find yourself in a situation, as a police officer, having to arrest a pensioner. Senior citizens and adults, in general, are supposed to be exemplary by obeying the law, not the other way round.
“But be as it may, we are there to enforce the law without fear or favour and we hope that others will learn from this exercise,” the report quoted Manamela as saying.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
