Recently, the Osizweni policing area, the Osizweni SAPS, officers from Osizweni Crime Prevention, Detective from Osizweni SAPS, and Newcastle Cluster Task Team joined forces to conduct an intelligence-driven operation focusing on drugs and other crimes within the Osizweni area.
During the recent operation, the officers arrested seven suspects for drugs with an estimated street value of R11 000.
Police spokesperson Lizzy Arumugam explains the first arrest took place in Section C, where an individual was taken into custody after he was found with two mandrax tablets. Following the arrest, another suspect from Section A, Osizweni, was taken into custody while the police team was patrolling the public road next to Iziko Primary School. The suspect was found with four whole mandrax tablets, two quarters of mandrax tablets and one half of a mandrax tablet. This was followed by another two men, also from Section A, being arrested at a house in Section A, where the SAPS recovered ten whole mandrax tablets.
Two men in Section A were also taken into police custody after they were found with heroin. According to Arumugam, the first of the two men was found with 13 parcels of heroin, and a further nine packets were recovered from the second suspect.
Additionally, a man was also taken into custody after police recovered four parcels of heroin, one full mandrax tablet and half of a mandrax tablet. With the local law enforcement clamping down on drugs, how do you feel the drug trade can be combated in the area?
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