Breaking News: American National arrested after found with 26 unreported Rhino Carcasses and Horn in Gravellote. The name of the person is Derek Lewitton. He got arrested by the hawks following the unearthing of 26 unreported rhino carcasses on his game farm which is near Gravelotte outside Phalaborwa. This arrest was made on Friday last week at midnight. It has been reported that the culmination of a 16-hour intensive investigation at the Harmony Game Farm. At this time this man is under custody and he is being investigated. Now read this article till the end to learn every single thing about this case.
Who Is Derek Lewitton?
Derek Lewitton is an American man. He has been recently arrested in the case of unearthing 26 unreported rhino carcasses on his game farm near Gravelotte outside Phalaborwa. His arrest was made on Friday last week. He was under investigation for around 16 hours at the Harmony game farm. According to the source, in the investigation, hawks uncovered 10 unmarked rhino horns stashed away in the safe within the main farmhouse. The horns lacked the crucial documentation that is officially required by the law. But it got implicated Derek Lewitton in the illegal trade of rhino horns. Scroll down to the next paragraph of this article.
Brigadier Hulani Mashaba officially confirmed these findings which are consolidating the case which was against Lewitton. This incident has dragged Derek Lewitton into the spotlight. The controversy is about a very serious issue of illegal rhino horn trading. The contentious debate on the subject around the entire globe. The arrested man has now become a symbol of the dark underbelly of this trade. As per the reports, the arrest was the major part of a big, multi-disciplinary crime-fighting operation in South Africa which resulted in the arrest of over 835 suspects for several serious crimes which also including rhino poaching. Keep reading this article in the next paragraph of this article.
As of the operation, it involves a lot of law enforcement agencies which led to the significant decline in several categories of crime and the confiscation of some illegal items such as drugs and endangered species. The arrest of the person was set to face court appearances in due course. Sources revealed that the arrest of Derek Lewitton and the subsequent findings on the game farm served as a stark reminder of the immediate need for increased vigilance and stricter regulation to preserve the endangered species and also to uphold the law.