Welkom – A father and son were arrested in Riebeeckstad on Friday following the discovery of a hydroponic dagga lab on their property, Free State police said.
Thabong police crime intelligence and Welkom K9 unit officers received a tip-off at about 9am on Friday morning about a drug laboratory in a house in Riebeeckstad, spokesman Captain Stephen Thakeng said in a statement.
Officers went to the house in Jason Street and requested permission to search the premises. A “high-grade” hydroponic dagga laboratory was found inside a back room in the house, and processed dagga in the son’s room and under a tree in the backyard.
The father, 52, and his son, 27, were arrested and would appear in the Welkom Magistrate’s Court soon on charges of possession, dealing in, and manufacturing “high-grade hydroponic dagga”, he said.
African News Agency
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