Mandrax
Suspect due in CT court for possession of mandrax worth R3m
The 29-year-old man will face charges of dealing in drugs.
Booysen, along with five others, handed themselves over to authorities on Thursday and were then arrested following an intelligence-driven operation on suspicion of drug dealing and drug trafficking.
The Hawks said Jerome Booysen and his co-accused were apprehended after handing themselves over to the authorities.
The Hawks along with the K9 Unit reacted to information they received about a bakkie travelling from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town carrying mandrax tablets.
On Tuesday, police were deployed across the Karoo town to crack down on drug dealers.
They found a bag in the trailer containing more than 6,780 mandrax tablets.
During a police operation in Mbekweni, a 33-year-old suspected drug dealer was caught with dagga, tik and mandrax on Saturday night.
Officers say six illegal firearms and ammunition were confiscated in the Nyanga cluster alone.
An intelligence-driven operation conducted this week, led police to a house in Phuku Street.
The 23-year-old man was pulled over on Tuesday morning during a roadblock along the N7.
The 32-year-old was arrested by the Hawks at his business premises in Phoenix yesterday.
Operation lockdown resulted to an arrest this week after the recovery of more than 220 mandrax tablets, several bags of dagga, and an unlicensed firearm.
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.
Police conducted a raid at a residence in Scottsville where they uncovered 30 bags of Mandrax containing more than 30,000 tablets.
Police raided a clandestine laboratory in Braamfisherville, Soweto on Friday where they seized large amounts of Mandrax tablets, other chemicals and equipment.
Walter Sinden had been being found guilty of corruption, dealing in drugs, defeating the course of justice and reckless and negligent driving.
The arrest took place at the Klawer Weighbridge on the N7 Highway, when the driver was stopped for displaying a fraudulent license disc on his trailer.
The man was arrested on Wednesday with three others when the police's Crime Intelligence and anti-gang unit raided his property in Hillside.