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Over the weekend, the South African Police Service (SAPS) made another serious drug seizure. A 23-year-old woman is accused of trying to smuggle cocaine into the country from Brazil.
The suspect was apprehended at OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday, 15 October, after members of Gauteng Crime Intelligence’s Monitoring and Interception Section gathered information about a foreign woman who boarded a flight from Brazil to South Africa via Doha, Qatar.
Police searched the suspect’s belongings and discovered 3.6 kilogrammes of cocaine with an estimated street value of R1.4 million.
“The suspect will appear before the Kempton Park Magistrate’s soon on drug trafficking charges,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Netshiunda.
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Earlier that week, on October 12, a 69-year-old man was apprehended at OR Tambo for attempting to smuggle eight kilogrammes of pure heroin to India. The drugs were estimated to be worth R1.2 million.
On October 4, a 37-year-old man was apprehended in Cape Town while attempting to smuggle in R2.4 million in cocaine. According to police, he arrived in South Africa on a flight from Dubai, UAE.