{"id":43117,"date":"2021-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/?guid=9b0b75d4cc7d1d577312fbeda2d18ded"},"modified":"2021-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"police-rid-communities-of-unlicensed-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/police-rid-communities-of-unlicensed-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Police rid communities of unlicensed firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; Efforts to rid our communities from unlicensed firearms landed a 32-year-old suspect behind bars when he was caught with a 9mm pistol with no serial number in Lugmag Street Factreton on Saturday, 30 October 2021 at about 10:10.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A joint police stop and search operation was held in the Cape Town cluster when the suspect was searched and the firearm found in his possession.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in Cape Town Magistrate\u2019s court on charges of possession of a prohibited firearm and ammunition on Tuesday, 02 November 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In an unrelated matter, members of Ravensmead police were busy escorting IEC officials when they heard gunshots going off. They drove in the direction of the sound of the gunshots and saw a known suspect running with a firearm in his hand. The firearm fell and the suspect kept running. The members recovered a 9mm pistol. A discharging of a firearm case were opened for investigation. The suspect is yet to be arrested and the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN &#8211; Efforts to rid our communities from unlicensed firearms landed a 32-year-old suspect behind bars when he was caught with a 9mm pistol with no serial number in Lugmag Street Factreton on Saturday, 30 October 2021 at about 10:10.A joint polic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police rid communities of unlicensed firearms - Daily South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailysouthafrica.com\/police-rid-communities-of-unlicensed-firearms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police rid communities of unlicensed firearms - 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