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Cape man arrested after 36‚000 Mandrax pills are found in truck

FILE PHOTO: Mandrax worth R34m was seized from a truck in Randfontein early on Saturday morning. Police arrested and charged three Zambian men with drug trafficking. They had travelled from Tanzania.
FILE PHOTO: Mandrax worth R34m was seized from a truck in Randfontein early on Saturday morning. Police arrested and charged three Zambian men with drug trafficking. They had travelled from Tanzania.

Members attached to the Central Karoo K9 Unit‚ with the assistance of the Western Cape Provincial Detective Narcotics team‚ arrested a man from Cape Town for the possession of Mandrax with an estimated value of R1.8-million.

On Sunday afternoon “the members stopped a white Volkswagen truck on the N1 highway between Beaufort West and Leeu Gamka”‚ Lieut-Col Andrè Traut said in a statement on Monday.

“In the back of the vehicle‚ in a concealed drawer‚ a total of 36‚000 Mandrax pills were confiscated with an estimated street value of R1.8-million.

 “The truck was travelling in the direction of Cape Town.”

The 35-year-old suspect is to appear in the Beaufort West Magistrates’ court on Tuesday on a charge of dealing in drugs.

 

 

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