Abalone bust
2 people arrested for possession of R2.7m worth of abalone in Brackenfell
Authorities uncovered an illegal abalone drying facility in willow creek during a search and seizure operation on Tuesday.
Operations were conducted in Century City and in the Airport Industria.
The Cape Town Regional Coury convicted Denver Langehoven and Solomon Sauls on charges of among others racketeering, fraud, and contravening the Marine Living Resources Act.
During an operation on Tuesday, two suspects were arrested near the Huguenot tunnel for the possession of abalone worth more than R5.3 million.
The alleged poachers were nabbed in the Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route Park.
The two were attached to the police’s major offence reaction team when the crime was committed.
It is alleged that the members pulled over a minibus taxi in Somerset West, which was transporting poached abalone from Hermanus to Cape Town.
Police acted on a tip-off this week and discovered the dried abalone on Tuesday.
Police acted on a tip-off that led them to a home in Table View, where they discovered the Abalone and arrested the two men.
Officers discovered the perlemoen at a house in the area following a tip-off earlier this week.
There have been at least five multi-million rand abalone busts in the Western Cape alone since December.
Members found numerous containers and plastic bags filled with shucked abalone and equipment like gas cylinders and burners.
Police received information of a truck transporting abalone to Gauteng on the N1 freeway.
The pair was arrested on Wednesday, after officials from Hawks and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry raided an abalone drying facility.
Officials, including those from the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, discovered abalone worth more than R3.1 million at a drying facility.
Julian Brown and two others were convicted in the Port Elizabeth High Court on Tuesday.
The suspects were handcuffed during a joint operation on Friday.
The suspect was nabbed on Tuesday morning after officers pulled over a bakkie he was travelling in on the N2 near Strand.
Officers spotted the man driving on the R44 following a tip-off during the early hours of Wednesday morning.