LADISMITH NEWS - Concerted efforts by the Ladismith Police Visible Policing Unit officers last week to eradicate and address the distribution of illegal drugs, yielded positive results.
Information received from the community led to a number of arrests.
On Friday, 24 September, the officers pounced on a Toyota Hilux bakkie on the Ladismith/Laingsburg road.
They pulled the vehicle over and searched it and two occupants. The police officers discovered a plastic bag containing 800 Mandrax tablets valued at about R48 000, concealed in foil inside a plastic bag, in front of a 31-year-old occupant of the bakkie. He was arrested on the spot and the drug find confiscated as evidence.
The suspect was scheduled to make his first court appearance in the Ladismith Magistrate's Court on Monday, 27 September.
The local police also arrested six people on Friday night in connection with the find of 79 "bankies" of tik, 10 Mandrax tablets and 21 quarter Mandrax tablets, confiscated during a search operation at a residence in Dirk Bosman Avenue, Ladismith.
The search was conducted after police received information regarding drug dealing on the premises. Officers arrested all those on the premises.
The drugs were confiscated and handed in as evidence. The six arrested, aged 18 to 35, were later released on a warning to appear in the local magistrate's court on 28 March next year, pending further investigation and analysis of a substance found in the yard.
Provincial police management praised the officers involved for their continued efforts to eradicate drugs in their communities.
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