The strategic deployment of members along entry and exit routes to the Western Cape once again yielded positive results when drugs with an estimated street value of R2.2 million were confiscated on the N1 at Beaufort West at about 06:00 this morning 04 November 2021.
Members attached to the Central Karoo K9 conducted a vehicle checkpoint when they stopped a passenger bus. They proceeded with a search of the luggage compartment where they found a suitcase with Tik inside. The find was later linked to a passenger on board. He was subsequently arrested on a charge of dealing in drugs.
Preliminary investigation indicates that the 37-year-old suspect was traveling from Durban and the consignment was destined for delivery in the Cape Metropole.
The suspect remains in custody. He is expected to make his first court appearance in the Beaufort West Magistrates’ court on Friday, 05 November 2021 on the mentioned charge….
