Across the Cape Peninsula
CCN News Desk
Cape Town:- The South African Police Service (SAPS) intensified it’s weekend operations across the Cape Metropole, taking guns, drugs, and stolen goods off the streets in a series of successful raids and arrests.
Gun and Drug Arrests in Ottery
Members of the SAPS Anti-Gang Unit, deployed in the Grassy Park precinct to combat gang-related crime, made significant progress in Ottery on Saturday, 8 November 2025.
Acting on a tip-off about an illegal firearm, officers searched a premises in Hector Road within an informal settlement. Inside, they found a 9mm pistol with no serial number and twelve rounds of ammunition. A 37-year-old male was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
In a separate incident, the same unit arrested a 38-year-old male in Peter Court, Ottery, after he was found with six packets of crystal meth, three units of cocaine, and 29 mandrax tablets. He faces charges of possession of drugs.
Both suspects are expected to appear in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 10 November 2025.
Drug and Stolen Goods Bust in Valhalla Park and Somerset West
Meanwhile, members of the Bishop Lavis Crime Prevention Unit and Operation Lockdown III raided a premises in 8th Avenue, Valhalla Park, where they seized a large consignment of drugs and an undisclosed amount of cash. A 48-year-old woman was arrested for dealing in drugs and will appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court once formally charged.
In an unrelated operation the same day, Operation Lockdown III members, assisted by a private security company, arrested nine suspects in Somerset West for possession of presumed stolen property.
The arrests followed intelligence about vehicles transporting boxes of stolen alcohol from Montague Gardens to a storage facility in Somerset West. Police intercepted the vehicles and recovered alcohol valued at approximately R3.8 million. The vehicles used in the operation were also confiscated.
The suspects, aged between 22 and 47, will appear before the Somerset West Magistrate’s Court once charged.
SAPS Commended for Continued Action
These coordinated operations form part of SAPS’s ongoing commitment to rid Western Cape communities of illegal firearms, drugs, and criminal syndicates.
Members of the public are urged to continue reporting crime and suspicious activity anonymously via the Crime Stop line at 08600 10111.
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