Winelands Cluster Crime Prevention Unit along with Boland K9 members acted on intelligence about illegal firearms. Members operationalised and intercepted a taxi that was traveling from Ceres to Cape Town and seized two unlicensed firearms, magazines and rounds of ammunition on Wednesday afternoon 27 January 2021, in Wellington.
Upon spotting the taxi, police officials pursued it through Wellington and pulled the vehicle over at 15:45 in Stokery Road. After searching the vehicle they discovered two pistols with serial numbers filed off, 26 rounds of ammunition and three magazines concealed in the panels of the vehicle.
Nine men between the ages of 29 and 60 were subsequently detained for possession of illegal firearms and ammunition. They are all from Cape Town.
The firearms will be sent for ballistics testing to determine if they were not used in the commission of crime.
