BOOTLEGGERS BUSTED

Cops vang syndicate making and selling fake booze in Lansdowne

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DECEMBER got off to a fast start for cops after they bust down an illicit alcohol plant in Lansdowne where fake dop was being manufactured.

Members of the Lingelethu West polisiestasie conducted a roadblock on Spine Road in Khayelitsha on Wednesday, where they stopped and searched a silver Hyundai i20 and found four bokse containing Old Buck Gin to which the mense of the kar could not give account for.

The pote were then led to a location in Lansdowne where they discovered an illegal dop manufacturing plant.

On the premises, they found manufacturing equipment and different alcohol branding stickers such as Smirnoff 1818, Old Buck and Gordon's Dry Gin and unknown liquids.