Durban - Members of the police’s Pietermaritzburg Public Order Police (POP) Task Force arrested two suspects and seized over R400 000 worth of drugs during an operation in Thornville in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.
Provincial police spokesperson Major Thulani Zwane said: “Members received information about drugs in the area and carried out a follow-up operation. The house in Hopewell, Thornville was searched and 1000 Mandrax tablets, 1700 Ecstasy tablets, 2200 straws of Whoonga and six parcels of heroin were recovered by police.
“The total value of the drugs is over four hundred thousand rands (R400 000). It is suspected that the drug dealers are supplying drugs as far afield as Pietermaritzburg and Estcourt. A case of dealing in drugs was opened for investigation at Thornville SAPS. The two suspects, aged 30 and 31, will appear in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrates’ Court on Thursday on a charge of dealing in drugs.”
KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni, said: “Drug dealers are destroying our communities and crippling the lives of our youth by supplying them with dangerous drugs. We will do everything in our power to remove them from society and lock them up in jail.”
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