FIVE Malawians and a Chinese national were set to appear in court today after being bust at a illegal liquor plant in Durbanville.<\/p>\n
The six were gevang on Monday after Metro Police Neighbourhood Safety Officers (NSOs) at the Chinese national’s home after tip-off.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Safety and Security teams confiscated over 2 000 litres of homemade gin during the raid, following a tip-off from the community to the Public Emergency Call Centre (PECC) about suspicious activity around the property.<\/p>\n
“The NSO officers responded and, on their arrival, were granted permission to enter the property. Once inside, they discovered 11 large drums filled with the gin as well as a machine seemingly being used to distil the alcohol,” the City said.<\/p>\n
“They also discovered that the suspects had been gathering bottles of two popular alcohol brands and were packaging the homemade liquor seemingly to be sold under these brand names.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three males and two females, aged between 18 and 39, were arrested on charges including illegal manufacturing of alcohol, contravening the Counterfeit Goods Act, and possession of presumed stolen property.<\/p>\n
The confiscated liquor will now be sent for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cCounterfeit alcohol is extremely dangerous and often contain toxic substances which can lead to severe health issues and even death. I applaud the NSOs for their swift action in this regard,” said Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, Alderman JP Smith.<\/p>\n
“The scene was handed over to Durbanville SAPS for further investigations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The City has urged residents to report any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIVE Malawians and a Chinese national were set to appear in court today after being bust at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[7569,7573,2065,7572,7196,7567,7562,7570,1694,7568,7560,5187,7564,7571,7563,7559,7558,7561,7566,7565,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-10997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-alderman","9":"tag-bellville-magistrates-court","10":"tag-cape-town","11":"tag-chinese","12":"tag-city","13":"tag-counterfeit-goods-act","14":"tag-durbanville","15":"tag-durbanville-saps","16":"tag-iol-news","17":"tag-jp-smith","18":"tag-liquor-plant","19":"tag-malawian","20":"tag-malawians","21":"tag-mayoral-committee-member-for-safety","22":"tag-metro-police","23":"tag-nationals","24":"tag-neighbourhood-safety-officers","25":"tag-nsos","26":"tag-pecc","27":"tag-public-emergency-call-centre","28":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}