Boboyi crackdown results in arrests
A man was found at a shebeen with 674 bottles of liquor.
A SUCCESSFUL police operation resulted in numerous people being arrested last Friday.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Zandra Wiid said Port Shepstone police cracked down on a shebeen in Boboyi, where much liquor and 15 cellphones were seized.
Major General Thembi Ndlovu and Colonel Nokthula Mzila, the cluster crime prevention head, joined the operation.
Warrant Officer Patrick Gosling and his team were also there, together with other officers from the station, the cluster office, the K9 unit and tactical response team unit.
Phindile Duma (31) and Sibongiseni Mseleku (51) were arrested at a shebeen in Boboyi.
Duma was found in possession of 45 bottles of beer and vodka and 15 cellphones, while Mseleku had 674 bottles of liquor (beer, vodka and ciders).
Duma was arrested for dealing in liquor and paid an admission of guilt fine of R1 000 last Friday. Mseleku was released on R1 000 bail last Friday and appeared in court on Monday this week.
In a separate incident, a 43-year-old man was charged after he was found with 51 parcels of dagga at a taxi rank in Boboyi.
Police arrested an 18-year-old woman for being in possession of 19 bottles of beer, two bottles of vodka and dagga weighing 840 grams at a shebeen in Sea Park.
She appeared in court on Monday and was charged for dealing in dagga.
Afterwards, the operation focused on the taxi rank where three men, in their 20s, were arrested for 60 straws of heroin. Another man was also arrested for being in possession of dagga. All four men appeared in court on Monday this week.
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