Cape Town - Two suspects were arrested on Sunday evening after police raided a home in Grassy Park in Cape Town and found a room full of endangered abalone, Western Cape police said on Monday.
South African Police Service's provincial communication's Debbie Alard said the arrests happened at roughly 10:45pm, after the Cape Town Railway Police were informed of the abalone-processing facility in Grassy Park.
“The members immediately followed the information and visited the address,” said Alard.
“On arrival at the premises, they found two rooms with various items of equipment.”
A third room, said Alard, was being used as a drying room with “numerous shelves of abalone in the process... of being dried”. The two suspects who were apprehended, aged 27 and 41, and would make their court appearance as soon as they were charged.
“Police would like to thank the community for being the eyes and ears... at all times,” said Alard.
African News Agency