{"id":31239,"date":"2021-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/?guid=839bcc99fe539b77cc0a107cd2c418c5"},"modified":"2021-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:00:00","slug":"suspect-arrested-for-drugs-in-cookhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/suspect-arrested-for-drugs-in-cookhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested for drugs in Cookhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COOKHOUSE &#8211; SAPS endeavours to remove illicit drugs from our streets yielded positive results when a 21-year-old suspect was arrested in possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 04 June 2021 Grahamstown K9 member Captain Percy Benn, a dog handler together with Cookhouse Crime Prevention members followed up on information on drug dealing in Cookhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The team confiscated 28 full mandrax tablets and a substantial amount of cash after executing a search warrant at a residence in Jasen Street, Cookhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated street value of the drugs is about R 2260-00.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is due to appear before the Somerset East Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>Cookhouse Station Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Ferreira, commended the members and thanked Captain Percy Benn for his assistance on arresting the suspect and the recovery of the drugs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COOKHOUSE &#8211; SAPS endeavours to remove illicit drugs from our streets yielded positive results when a 21-year-old suspect was arrested in possession of drugs.On Friday 04 June 2021 Grahamstown K9 member Captain Percy Benn, a dog handler together with Co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricagazette.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}