Drug bust
Drug busts, illegal firearms found, WC SAPS makes several arrests over weekend
Officers say six illegal firearms and ammunition were confiscated in the Nyanga cluster alone.
Police found more than 12,000 mandrax tablets at the house and an undisclosed amount of money during a recent raid.
An intelligence-driven operation conducted this week, led police to a house in Phuku Street.
The man was taken into custody at a filling station on the N1 in Cape Town early Sunday morning.
Upington police, in the Northern Cape, followed up on information about drug trafficking on the N1.
Officers responding to a tip-off raided a house where they confiscated over 2 kilograms of khat and 500 grams of tik.
The hero of the story was a Metro Police sniffer dog who alerted officers to parcels of drugs in a courier vehicle at a routine traffic stop in the area.
Limpopo police have arrested three suspects following the discovery of a drug lab in Pretoria, equipment and drugs were seized.
They were trying to establish whether the suspect was just an arms dealer and collector as he claimed or whether he had malicious intentions.
The arsenal was discovered in Centurion on Tuesday, where detectives, as well as police and the South African National Defence Force weapons experts, continued to work on the crime scene.
One suspect was arrested following a search and seizure operation in which officials discovered a hydroponic dagga lab and a massive production of magic mushrooms.
This followed an intelligence-driven operation at a business park in Brackenfell where a black BMW was stopped and searched.
Interpol’s head of organised crime Paul Stanfield said South Africa had become a consumer, a producer and a distributor of drugs.
Interpol’s second Global Drugs and Illicit Substances Trafficking Conference will bring together about 400 delegates from 194 member countries.
The JMPD K9 unit members were informed of suspicious behaviour and discovered what looked like a drug laboratory upon arrival on Friday night.
Six suspects appeared in the local magistrates court on Wednesday after they were caught transporting dagga worth more than R1.7 million to Cape Town.
Bandile Mbana, an official at the facility for the past 10 years, was arrested and detained following a random search conducted earlier in August.
Suspects have been arrested in Middelburg while the occupant of the house in Diepkloof was apprehended.
This followed after the police spotted a suspicious vehicle driving on the N2 last night.