By Sue-Ann Wayow
MORE than $200,000 worth of honey and six protected monkeys were seized by police officers on Friday.
Police reports are that officers of the South Western Division stopped a truck on Friday. During the search of the vehicle, officers discovered 60 buckets containing honey and six monkeys – Cebus Albifrons, commonly called the white-fronted Capuchin monkey.
The seized honey had a street value of $276,000 and the monkeys had a street value of $9,000.
The monkeys were handed over to the curator of the Emperor Valley Zoo for safekeeping and five men were arrested.
Enquiries are continuing in relation to the honey.
Police from the Central Division also put the brakes on a stolen vehicle ring this weekend when they recovered nine Nissan vehicles that were reported stolen.
Two men were arrested in connection with the intelligence-led exercise.
