Cape Town - A tip-off about a parcel containing drugs being couriered from Johannesburg to Cape Town paid off on Thursday when two men were arrested and tik worth an estimated R2 million was seized near the Cape Town International Airport, Western Cape police said.
Members of the border police received the tip-off that the parcel from Kempton Park was to be collected at an Airport Industria based company in Cape Town.
“At approximately 09:00 a Fiat hatchback with two male occupants departed from the premises and were pulled over by the Border Police members,” police spokesman Andre Traut said.
“Upon searching the vehicle they discovered a bag containing smaller bags of tik in the front of the vehicle. The members then searched a box in the boot of the vehicle from which they recovered more bags containing tik.”
A total of seven kilograms of tik was seized.
The car’s two occupants, a 30-year-old man from Durbanville and a 34-year-old man from Kuilsriver, were arrested.
They were expected to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s court on Monday.
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