By Obakeng Maje

The high police visibility on the N9 highway en -route to Colesberg led to the arrest of a 31-year old man and charged him for illegal possession of abalone in the early hours of morning at about 00:15am police said. 

“The police were patrolling on the high way when they spotted a suspicious looking white Nissan Hardbody bakkie driving haphazardly on the road” Lieutenant Sergio Kock said. 

Subsequent to that the police tried to pull it off the road, however the driver sped off and the chase ensued between the police and the Nissan bakkie. 

“The police managed to pull it off the road after the chase ensued. Upon investigation 58 refusal plastic bags filled with frozen abalone were found stashed in the back of bakkie” Kock adds. 

The estimated value of the abalone is R10 million.

“The suspect will appear tomorrow before the Noupoort Magistrate Court on charges of illegal possession of abalone” police said.