Around R120 000 worth of drugs was stuffed into the cereal boxes – Photo: SAPS/Twitter
Around R120 000 worth of drugs was stuffed into the cereal boxes – Photo: SAPS/Twitter
Whatever you do, make sure you don’t eat THIS for breakfast. SAPS operating in the Western Cape between George and Oudtshoorn made a shocking discovery on Wednesday – after they found a huge consignment of drugs stuffed into multiple boxes of Jungle Oats.
‘Warning: May contain tik…’ – cops stunned by Jungle Oats plot
The popular breakfast cereal was replaced instead by a kingpin’s ransom of illicit drugs. The 27-year-old suspect who was arrested at the scene will appear in court on Friday 18 March. She’s been charged with dealing in narcotics.
SAPS have given an account of the bizarre incident – it really is a jaw-dropper:
- One officer noticed something strange, while he was conducting a search at a vehicle checkpoint on the N9.
- Large boxes of Jungle Oats had been ‘tampered with’, sticking out like a sore thumb to the cops.
- Inside the packaging was hundreds of mandrax tablets, and 300g of tik.
- An undisclosed amount of cash was also found upon the suspect’s person.
- Meanwhile, it’s believed the value of the drugs confiscated totalled R120 000.
#sapsWC Drugs concealed in oats boxes leads to arrest of a 27yr-old woman on the N9 when Rural #FlyingSquad members conducted a vehicle checkpoint on 16/03 between George and Oudtshoorn. #PoliceVisibility #DrugsOffTheStreets MEhttps://t.co/IcqmXpQh3M pic.twitter.com/yUCuvbFLzH
— SA Police Service ???????? (@SAPoliceService) March 17, 2022
Suspect to appear in court before the weekend
Look, we know that some cereals like to put a prize inside their boxes, but this was an extremely audacious attempt to fool our trained police officers. In a statement issued earlier today, SAPS explained that the Jungle Oats boxes actually belonged to a taxi passenger, and she was caught out when the minibus was stopped at the roadblock:
“Endeavours to eradicate drug trafficking and rid communities of drugs led to the confiscation of drugs worth R120 000 that were concealed in Oats boxes and the subsequent arrest of a woman on the N9 on Wednesday, 16 March 2022.”
“Rural Flying Squad members conducted a vehicle check point between George and Oudtshoorn, when they stopped a minibus taxi. They pulled over the taxi and proceeded with a search of the vehicle when a member of the group detected that the Jungle Oats instant porridge boxes were tampered with.”
“When they opened these boxes, members discovered the mandrax tablets and tik stashed inside it. The find was linked to a passenger on board who was immediately arrested on a charge of dealing in drugs. Police confiscated the 304 mandrax tablets, 300 gram tik as well as an undisclosed amount of cash”
SAPS statement
