POLICE made a crystal meth bust at a Kempton CBD flat while tenants of the apartment were being evicted on Friday afternoon.

According to ward councillor Jaco Terblanche, tenants at the flat were moving out when the drugs were found in one of the bedrooms.

The meth was packed into two plastic bags and a bucket. Inside the bucket was the drug in its uncut form, filling it halfway.

Inside one of the plastic bags was the drug already cut up, some of it into small blocks and the rest was in its crushed form. The second plastic bag contained dark brown coloured meth that was ‘burned’.

The flat is being rented by a woman who lives in Durban. Her boyfriend, a Nigerian national, was the one living at the residence.
The Nigerian man had allegedly sub-rented the flat to other people.

According to the agency renting out the flat on Greyilla Avenue, they only knew of the woman who they said was renting the flat through them.

“We didn’t know the woman had other people living here,” the agency said.

When police arrived at the scene they only found one woman in the flat, who said she lived there with her partner. When police asked her where he (her partner) was, she said “he left”.

The Nigerian man is allegedly visiting his home country and the room the drugs were found in was locked.

Terblanche said it was very important for the community to speak out and report such incidents to the police if they are aware of it.

“We urge the community to come forward and give the police more information so we can get the drug trade out of Kempton Park and make it a drug free city,” Terblanche said.

No arrests have been made yet and the drugs were taken to a lab to be tested.