The South African Police Service (SAPS) has detained three suspects, each on ‘a charge of dealing in drugs’ and each from a different area of Cape Town.
In correspondence with Cape {town} Etc, police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said that all three arrests occurred over the weekend.
According to a police statement issued on Monday, March 11, 2024, the drug busts occurred in Kraaifontein, Harare’s Khayelitsha, and Wesbank.
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Police members who were attached to Operation Restore pursued information in regards to a ‘drug dealing in Wallacedene in Kraaifontein’ on Saturday, 9 March 2024.
When police entered the premises, after a search of the property, they confiscated a bag filled with dagga. A 19-year-old female was promptly arrested.
In an ‘unrelated incident’, SAPS members responded to information pertaining to a ‘drug dealing in Mnvelmano Street in Harare’.
Once they arrived and searched the premises, ‘a consignment of loose dagga and dagga cigarettes’ was confiscated, which led to the arrest of a 29-year-old male.
On a third instance, SAPS members proceeded to ‘Malgas Street in Wesbank’ to search a property that was a ‘pre-identified address’.
They confiscated 195 Mandrax tablets from a ’62-year-old man’, who was eventually detained.
Once charged, the suspects are due to make their respective appearances in ‘the Blue Downs and Khayelitsha Magistrates’ Courts’.
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