Kaalfontein High School learner arrested for selling ‘space cookies’

A Kaalfontein High School learner has landed himself in trouble after he was busted for selling space cookies earlier today, Friday, 30 September.

KAALFONTEIN HIGH SCHOOL LEARNER TARGETS SCHOOL EVENTS

Space cookies or cannabis mixed cakes are types of cookies that have been prepared with marijuana or dagga and can be consumed as cannabis edibles. However, the sale, especially on school property is unarguably illegal.

Ivory Park SAPS Communications Officer Captain Ben Matimulane said two Ivory Park SAPS officers, working together with patrollers, arrested the 18-year-old learner from Kaalfontein High School for selling dagga, hidden in cookies – commonly referred to as space cookies.

“He was selling them at Tsosoloso Secondary School, where there was a school closing-related event.”

Matimulane

He said the sector managers, working with the patrollers, decided to use this event to conduct a school search, as learners tend to indulge in all sorts of mischief during these events. And also the fact that a learner bought one of the cookies and it was found containing dagga.

“It was a bucketful of cookies, going for ten rand a cookie.”

Matimulane

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HEAD OF THE STATION COMMENTS ON THE LEARNER’S ARREST

Commenting on the arrest, Brigadier David Mbongeni Ngcobo, the Station Commander of the Ivory Park SAPS, said: “All law-abiding learners have a moral and legal obligation to report any learner whose actions are a detriment to the well-being of the school”.

He said the two police officers and patrollers did well, by going into this event and disrupting this illicit business.

Matimulane further confirmed that the suspect will face a charge of dealing in dagga when he appears before the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 3 October.

Still on the arrest of learners, on Wednesday, 21 September, two matric boys were apprehended after they were caught stealing their school’s property on the morning of Tuesday, 20 September.

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