Hawks bust a number of alleged drug sellers in Durban
TMG Digital | 2016-06-05 sixteen:forty nine:15.zero
Handcuffs. File Photograph.
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The Hawks have arrested 4 suspects in Phoenix‚ Durban‚ for allegedly dealing in medicine.
The suspects are aged between 25 and forty nine.
The Hawks stated on Sunday the intelligence-pushed operation was aimed toward curbing drug dealing within the metropolis and its environs.
A search of a tavern had led to the restoration of varied medicine‚ together with rock cocaine and ecstacy tablets with an estimated road worth of over R167‚000‚ they stated.
A complete of R138‚780 in money‚ suspected to be the proceeds from buying and selling in medicine‚ was additionally seized within the raid.
The Hawks additionally arrested a forty seven-yr-previous suspect in Chatsworth for allegedly dealing in medicine. The suspect was present in possession of varied medicine‚ together with 521 heroin capsules.
In Bayview‚ a 32-yr-previous suspect was additionally arrested for possession of medicine after being discovered with heroin‚ cocaine and mandrax‚ the Hawks stated.
They added that the suspects would all seem in both the Durban or Chatsworth magistrates’ courts on Monday.