Camps Bay café shooting: Gangster serving 25-year sentence takes rap | BraGrobbies
Cheslin Adams, 31, was also charged with contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 , to which he also pleaded guiltyin the Cape Town Regional Court on Thursday.
Links to the alleged club scene turf war plaguing the city saw the Hawks’ serious organised crime unit take over the case. In addition, Adams was sentenced to two years for each count of illegal possession of ammunition and another two years for contravention of the POCA.The court further ordered that the 12 years' effective imprisonment should run concurrently with an effective 25 years’ imprisonment imposed by Western Cape High Court on March 12.
Hawks spokesperson Captain Philani Nkwalase said Adams was arrested by the Hawks' underworld investigating team on October 27, 2017, after he had been on the run since the Café Caprice shootout.
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