Five arrested as police seize 27 bags of dagga at Fort Brown roadblock
Traffic officers and police arrested five suspects at a roadblock outside the Fort Brown police station near Grahamstown, seizing 27 bags of dagga from an abandoned bakkie with an estimated street value of R500,000.
🇿🇦 Fort Brown, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape · South Africa
An alert team of traffic officers and police arrested five people suspected of dealing in dagga at a roadblock outside the Fort Brown police station near Grahamstown on Tuesday.[1]The suspects were aged between 31 and 56.[1]
Officers first stopped a white VW Polo with four occupants, and a traffic officer overheard one of the occupants speaking on a cellphone saying the other party must not come through.[1]A blue Isuzu bakkie was then seen pulling over to the side of the road before making a U-turn and driving back towards Fort Beaufort; two police officers gave chase but could not trace it at first.[1]On their way back to the station they stopped a man standing by the roadside who could not give a good account of himself, and a search of the area revealed the abandoned bakkie containing 27 bags of dagga with an estimated street value of R500,000.[1]
Grahamstown police cluster commander Brigadier Vakala Moyake praised the Fort Brown warrant officers and the four traffic officers for their alertness and quick action.[1]
Case data
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Free State police stopped a truck on the N1 south on 7 November 2026 and found 452 one-kilogram bales of dagga, but the driver jumped out of the moving vehicle about 100 metres from Parys police station and escaped on foot. The truck was impounded and its owner questioned; no arrest for the load had been reported.
Soldiers of 10 South African Infantry Battalion seized 78 kg of dagga valued at R473,000 during Operation CORONA patrols in the Musina area along the Limpopo River. The SANDF said the cannabis was allegedly intended to be smuggled into South Africa.
Police stopped a white Isuzu truck on the N4 near Vandyksdrift on 19 October and found 55 bags of compressed dagga weighing 1,680 kg, which they valued at R12 million. Two men who arrived in a Polo and allegedly offered the officers money were arrested with the driver.
Secunda Flying Squad officers found 103 kg of dagga worth about R800,000 in a Gauteng-registered Honda Civic stopped on the N17 near Leandra on 19 October 2026. The driver abandoned the car and fled on foot; the vehicle and the dagga were seized.
