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PICS: Couple held for growing dagga at home

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This morning, 8 April 2016, members of the Western Cape Provincial Detectives arrested 2 suspects, a 42-year-old male and his 51-year-old wife, for dealing in drugs at their Vredehoek residence. The couple was cultivating dagga in a hydrophobic laboratory and dagga valued at R 50 000-00 and equipment were confiscated. They are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates court on Monday. Picture SAPS
This morning, 8 April 2016, members of the Western Cape Provincial Detectives arrested 2 suspects, a 42-year-old male and his 51-year-old wife, for dealing in drugs at their Vredehoek residence. The couple was cultivating dagga in a hydrophobic laboratory and dagga valued at R 50 000-00 and equipment were confiscated. They are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates court on Monday. Picture SAPS
This morning, 8 April 2016, members of the Western Cape Provincial Detectives arrested 2 suspects, a 42-year-old male and his 51-year-old wife, for dealing in drugs at their Vredehoek residence. The couple was cultivating dagga in a hydrophobic laboratory and dagga valued at R 50 000-00 and equipment were confiscated. They are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates court on Monday. Picture SAPS
This morning, 8 April 2016, members of the Western Cape Provincial Detectives arrested 2 suspects, a 42-year-old male and his 51-year-old wife, for dealing in drugs at their Vredehoek residence. The couple was cultivating dagga in a hydrophobic laboratory and dagga valued at R 50 000-00 and equipment were confiscated. They are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates court on Monday. Picture SAPS
This morning, 8 April 2016, members of the Western Cape Provincial Detectives arrested 2 suspects, a 42-year-old male and his 51-year-old wife, for dealing in drugs at their Vredehoek residence. The couple was cultivating dagga in a hydrophobic laboratory and dagga valued at R 50 000-00 and equipment were confiscated. They are due to appear in the Cape Town Magistrates court on Monday. Picture SAPS

Cape Town - A Vredehoek couple is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Monday for converting a section of their home into a hi-tech dagga cultivating greenhouse.

The husband, 42, and his wife, 51, face drug-dealing charges.

A police statement on their arrest said they were “cultivating dagga in a hydroponic laboratory”.

Dagga worth R50 000 and equipment were confiscated during a police sting at their home on Friday.

Photos taken by police during the sting operation show what appears to be an outdoor greenhouse and another shows a wire contraption appearing to hold up dagga plants.

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