During the early hours of this morning, members of the Ficksburg Visible Policing Unit carried out crime prevention operational concepts in the Ficksburg policing precinct.
During the roadblock, Police pulled over a white Toyota Alphard in Einde Street near a filling station at about 02:15.
A search was conducted, and members found a parcel wrapped with brown sticky packaging tape inside the boot of the vehicle.
The 39-year-old driver was asked to account for the parcel, and he informed the police that he had been requested to transport it from Johannesburg to Maseru.
Police unwrapped the parcel and found four (4) horns believed to be those of a rhino, a zip-lock plastic bag containing fifty (50) suspected unpolished diamonds, and one (1) solid gold item in a medicine plastic container.
Members immediately placed the foreign national male under arrest, and a case docket of possession of suspected rhino horns, unpolished diamonds, and gold was opened at the Ficksburg Police Station.
The suspect is expected to stand before the Magistrate (in box) in the Ficksburg Magistrate’s Court soon.
BY LUCKY SEANEGO
