{"id":1566,"date":"2025-12-31T22:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:56:31","slug":"man-nabbed-with-skunk-dagga-cough-syrup-in-sakubva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/man-nabbed-with-skunk-dagga-cough-syrup-in-sakubva\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Nabbed with \u201cSkunk\u201d Dagga, Cough Syrup in Sakubva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Fanuel Chinowaita<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"992\" data-id=\"1567\" src=\"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251231-WA0058.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251231-WA0058.jpg 744w, https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251231-WA0058-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mutare, 1 January 2026<\/strong> \u2013 The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare have arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly possessing unregistered medicines and cannabis with an estimated street value of US$200, following an operation conducted on Tuesday evening in Sakubva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect was apprehended at Block Yard Car Park at around 6:40pm on December 30, 2025. Police said the arrest followed a tip-off indicating that \u201cthe accused person was selling BronCleer cough syrup containing codeine and dagga.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police team deployed by the Officer-in-Charge of Sakubva reacted to the information. According to the police report, \u201cupon arrival at Block Yard Car Park, police officers identified themselves and informed the accused person of the nature of their duties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before a physical search was conducted, the suspect voluntarily produced a black satchel. Police later listed its contents as \u201cfive 100ml full bottles of BronCleer syrup, one 100ml full bottle of Benylin syrup, two 100ml bottles of Astra Pain syrup, one small weighing scale, 100 small sachets of skunk dagga, and one large sachet of dagga.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspect is facing charges of \u201csale and\/or possession of unregistered medicines\u201d as well as \u201cunlawful possession of dagga.\u201d Police confirmed that all recovered exhibits were \u201chanded over to the Charge Office under Occurrence Book number 11767\/25, pending further management.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accused person remains in custody at ZRP Sakubva, \u201cawaiting court referral.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fanuel Chinowaita Mutare, 1 January 2026 \u2013 The Zimbabwe Republic Police in Mutare have arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly possessing unregistered medicines and cannabis with an estimated street value of US$200, following an operation conducted on Tuesday evening in Sakubva. The suspect was apprehended at Block Yard Car Park at around 6:40pm on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewasupost.co.zw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}