The City of Cape Town’s Metro Police Department has arrested four suspects following a huge dagga bust on Monday.
The Drug and Gang Task Team, in conjunction with the Police’s Intelligence Unit, executed a search warrant at a complex in Kuils River.
City safety boss, JP Smith, says: “They confiscated dagga with a street value of approximately R150 000 and arrested four suspects, aged between 19 and 36, who were detained at Mfuleni SAPS.
“Officers also confiscated three scales, 13 smart phones and just over R10 000 in cash.”
The bust comes just more than 24 hours after the Gang and Drug Task Team, in conjunction with members of the Delft Neighbourhood Safety Team, followed up on information regarding drug dealing at a property in Leiden, Delft, and confiscated around 50kg of dagga with an estimated street value of R60 000.
A 35-year-old female was detained at the Delft Police Station for further investigation.
In other enforcement successes over the past weekend, the City’s Traffic Service arrested 55 suspects, impounded 150 taxis (68 minibus taxis and 82 sedan taxis) and issued 2 957 fines for various other offences.
“We sounded a warning to public transport operators recently about our integrated weekly blitzes to tackle more transgressions in the industry, focusing specifically on hotspot areas,” adds Smith
“The statistics are proof that we are not fooling around.”