A man was arrested for the illegal possession of perlemoen (abalone) worth R120 000 in the Skaapkraal area.
|||Cape Town - A man was arrested for the illegal possession of perlemoen (abalone) worth R120 000 in the Skaapkraal area on Thursday, Cape Town police said.
Captain Frederick Van Wyk said the Mitchells Plain cluster tactical response team received a tip-off from the community about perlemoen being stored at a house.
“When the members executed a search, they found a huge amount of abalone inside a freezer in the back of the yard. They found plastic bags containing 743 shucked abalone with an estimated street value of R120 000.”
A 29-year-old man was arrested and would appear in the Athlone Magistrate's Court soon, Van Wyk said. - Sapa