SQUATTER BUST WITH GUNS AND AMMUNITION By Mohanoe Khiba Firearms and ammunition recovered by the police. Photo Supplied.Photo by .
A suspect was bust in a shack near the Klerksdorp dumping site in North West on Friday for the unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
The arrest happened during an operation by the police’s Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Illicit Mining Team at about 6.30pm.
Police spokeswoman Colonel Adele Myburgh confirmed the suspect was arrested after cops conducted a search of a shack near the Klerksdorp dumping site.
“During the search, 53 9mm live ammunitions and three 9mm pistols with magazines were found,” Myburgh said.
A 52-year-old, Sam Bekare Nontoloane, will remain in custody after his first court appearance yesterday in the Bafokeng Magistrates’ Court in Tlhabane for possession of explosives (Explosives Act 26 of 1956). He will reappear before the same court on Monday, 22 February 2021.
The suspect’s court appearance emanates from his arrest at about 13:05 on Tuesday, 09 February 2021. That was after police received information that Nontoloane was in the process of selling explosives. He was ultimately stopped and searched whilst walking in the street at Luka village near Phokeng, outside Rustenburg. Consequently, numerous shock tubes, blasting cables, starters and explogel were found in a plastic bag Nontoloane was carrying.