In three separate drug related cases on the West Coast, four alleged drug dealers were apprehended after their large stashes of dagga were found by the police.
According to captain Tania Helfrich, a spokesperson for the West Coast Police District, the Vredenburg police arrested two suspects in two separate drug cases on Monday 5 December. The Moorreesburg police arrested another two suspects in one drug-related case on Wednesday 7 December.
Helfrich said stop-and-seize operations were conducted in Vredenburg on 5 December and led to the arrest of two men, respectively aged 29 and 25, in two separate cases. Both men were searched and a considerable amount dagga was found in their possession.
On Wednesday 7 December the Moorreesburg police received information of drugs allegedly being sold from a property in Main Street, Moorreesburg. At 12:30 the police searched the premises and found 117 small bags dagga, eight transparent bags with dagga, one plastic bag containing loose dagga and a vacuum sealed transparent bag with loose dagga. The street value of the dagga is estimated at R7 060 and the two suspects, a woman (40) and a man (29), appeared in the Moorreesburg Magistrate Court on Thursday the 8th.
