A cashier from Pelikan Park has appeared on drug dealing charges in the Wynberg Magistrates’ Court on Monday after she was busted with R60 000 worth of tik in a safe on Friday.
The 20-year-old woman’s home in New Horizons was raided on Friday morning after Grassy Park cops received a tip-off that someone at the property was smokkeling.
Acting station commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Esau, says officers obtained a search warrant and searched the home in Garnet Close where they found a safe in one of the rooms.
According to a police source, the cashier told cops the safe belongs to her cousin and that she did not have a key to open it.
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Cops called the cousin, who explained she was dropping her child at school and told officers to wait at the home as she would come to open it for them.
“She said 10 minutes but then it went on for a half an hour and she still didn’t stiek uit.
“When they called again, her phone was sommer off, so the cousin and the safe were taken to the station and we moered it open.
“Just so two hits with the hammer and here the tik came falling out.”
Esau confirms cops broke open the safe with a hammer and found 184.96 grams of tik worth R60 000, empty plastic bags and a scale.
The source says the two cousins are suspected of covering for their uncle who is affiliated to the Six Bobs gang.
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“The uncle is actually the mert and he koppels with the Six Bobs,” says the source.
“The one is a cashier and the other cousin doesn’t even work, but they live in a place where the rent is like R6000. The uncle pays the rent for them.
“The cousin who had the keys to the safe put her phone off and spat leaving the other girly to take the wrap.”
Esau says the woman now faces drug dealing charges and is expected to make her first appearance on Monday after spending the weekend in the holding cells.