By Ndumiso Mlilo.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa. (News of The South) – EIGHTY Zimbabweans and three South Africans appeared in Kwadukuza Magistrate’s court (KwaZulu-Natal) on Friday after being arrested for manufacturing heroin with a street value of R17 million.
The police who had been monitoring the suspects pounced on them in their heroine packaging laboratory at Durban’s North Coast last Thursday afternoon. The police spokesperson Lieutenant Robert Netshiunda said they are now looking for other suspects whose arrested are imminent. Lt Netshiunda said:
“Eight men, five of them Zimbabwean nationals, were caught in the act of manufacturing heroine and before they knew it they were facing walls in police custody. During the search at their make-shift laboratory the Hawks members found 26kg of heroine powder and 14kg of uncut heroine with the estimated street value of R17 million. The drugs were hidden at different compartments inside the house.”
The police also confisticated R1 million worth of heroine-producing equipment. The arrested are of the ages 25 and 45.
The appeared in court on Friday and the case was remanded to March 14, 2016. Lt Netshiunda confirmed to News of the South that they are following leads and will be arresting other suspects. He also warned that the numbers of those committing crimes in South Africa are numbered.
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