The operations conducted by the police officers from the Provincial Organised Crime are still on-going in the KZN province.
On 15 April 2021, at 07:30, the team went to Park Lane Street in Greytown to execute a search warrant. A search was conducted inside the house and the police found 42 bags containing cocaine powder, two large moons of rock cocaine, four glass bottles with cocaine residue and a scale. A variety of foreign currency were found inside the house as well as cash suspected to be the proceeds of drugs.
The estimated street value of the recovered drugs is R20 000-00. Cosmos Eke (43) was placed under arrest for possession of drugs. The team proceeded to Greytown SAPS where a 21-year-old police officer, Constable Clifford Nolan Naicker was arrested for defeating the ends of justice and for dealing in drugs.
Both suspects appeared before the Greytown Magistrates Court on 16 April 2021. They were remanded in custody until 23 April 2021.
