On Thursday 6 January 2022, at about 21:30 members of the Provincial Extortion Task Team searched a premises in Siwa Street KTC Gugulethu and confiscated 10 grams uncut crystal meth, 53 Bankies crystal meth, one mandrax tablet, 31 half mandrax tablets, 227 bankies dagga and one five kilogram compressed dagga.
A 31-year-old suspect was arrested and detained on possession of drugs charges.
Furthermore the same members searched a premises in Ntsalgano Cresent Nyanga and confiscated 23 parcels of dagga, 17 stops of dagga and an undisclosed amount of cash.
A 73-year-old male was arrested on a charge of possession of dagga.
The suspects are due to make their respective court appearances today in Athlone Magistrates court on the mentioned charges.
In an unrelated matter members of the Anti-Gang Unit recovered an AK47 assault rifle and ammunition in an open field on the Stellenbosch Arterial Road, Belhar on 6 January 2022.
The members received a tip-off about the location of the rifle and followed up the information. An enquiry file was opened for investigation and arrests are yet to be made.
