While leaving a block leaders’ meeting, last Tuesday, at 9.20pm, Const Erin Palmer from the Elsburg SAPS and CPF members noticed a suspicious vehicle.
The vehicle, a silver VW Polo, was parked in Voortrekker Street, Elsburg, and a man got out of it and went into a shop in the street.
Palmer approached the vehicle and identified herself as a police officer to the woman driver.
“She asked her what she was doing there and where she comes from,” said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.
“The woman told Palmer that she was from Kempton Park and that her husband had gone into the shop to see a friend.”
Palmer then asked her to call her husband before they searched the vehicle.
She then drove around the block with the CPF members to see if there was any other suspicious activity.
“When Palmer and the CPF members returned to where the Polo was parked, the constable saw that the vehicle was still there and the man was sitting in the passenger seat.
“The officer instructed one of her male CPF members to search the young man but nothing was found on him.
“When Palmer saw a camouflage backpack on the floor in the front of the vehicle she asked to whom it belonged and the man said it belonged to him,” said Phooko.
Upon searching the bag she found a silver box containing six packets of white powder and two packets of dagga, and a container filled with dagga buds.
This led to a further search of the vehicle which yielded a portable digital scale, crushing plate, zip-up case containing a steel sniffing straw and glass lollipop pipe hidden near the driver’s seat.
The 27-year-old man and the 29-year-old woman were arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station.
They are due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon on a charge of suspicion of dealing in drugs.
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