While on a routine patrol in Rietfontein Road, last Thursday, officers from the Primrose Police Station noticed a man running from a house towards a vehicle parked on the side of the road.
Suspicious, they stopped the man before he reached the vehicle and searched him.
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“During the search police found a small plastic bag containing a white substance, they believed to be drugs, in the 42-year-old man’s front pocket,” said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.
“While being questioned by police the man confessed the substance was drugs.”
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He was arrested and charged with possession of drugs.
The suspect has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court, where his case was postponed for plea and trial.
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