Operations by the Provincial Drug and Firearm Unit continue unabated in the KwaZulu-Natal province and an official search at a Silvertree Road premises in Wentworth yielded the arrests of two suspects and the recovery of drugs and ammunition to the value of R74 000.
KZN police spokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala, said the team went to execute a search warrant in one of the premises on Silvertree Road in Wentworth. She said the house had been identified as one of the well-known drug dealers in the area. “The premises were penetrated after it became known that the suspects
who were in the outbuilding were attempting to dispose of the evidence. An arrest was immediately made and two suspects, aged 18 and 19, were placed under arrest after they were found in possession of plastic packets containing 2 401 blue/white capsules of heroin, 233 rounds of ammunition, two magazines and an electronic scale. Cash of R350 was also seized from the suspects.”
Capt Gwala said the total value of the drugs and ammunition seized is valued at R74 000. “The recovered ammunition will be subjected to ballistic testing to ascertain if it was used during the gang-related shootings in and around the Wentworth area,” she added.
The suspects appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on charges of possession/dealing in drugs and unlawful possession of ammunition.
