Hefty sentences for North West child kidnapper, drug dealers
RUSTENBURG - A 22-year-old man was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for kidnapping a child and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, North West police said on Friday.
He was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a ten-year-old boy in August 2017. The boy failed to come back from school on August 25, 2017. He was reported missing to the police on August 27, 2017. "Following the suspect’s interview, police were led to an abandoned drainage system manhole just outside Verdwaal village near Itsoseng where the boy was found. The boy was then taken for a medical check-up that confirmed that he was healthy and thereafter handed back to his family."
Captain Tselanyane said the four were arrested on May 9, 2017 at Moubane near Madikwe, following a search at a house in the village."All of these items were seized as well as mandrax with estimated street value of R338 000. It was later confirmed through forensic analysis that indeed it was mandrax that was being manufactured," Tselanyane said.
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