EASTERN CAPE – After an alert courier company reported to police a suspicious package at their warehouse, SAPS Kabega Park Crime Prevention members confiscated liquid tobacco with a street value of R360 000-00.
It is alleged that on Thursday, July 2020 at about 14:00, the company received a package from Cape Town. It is further alleged that a similar package was received for the same person earlier in the week and the suspicious behavior of the recipient caught the attention of the company. When another package arrived yesterday for the same person, police were roped in to investigate. The package was opened and 30 boxes each containing 120 packets of various flavours of oka pipe liquid tobacco were confiscated. The total street value is R180 000-00.
At about 17:30, the same evening, police returned to the company as another package arrived. Another 30 boxes of the same liquid tobacco were confiscated. The total value of both confiscations is R360 000.00
