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Dealers caught next to school

The KwaDukuza Cluster Police arrested four drug dealers after another successful undercover operation. Brigadier Captain-Hastibeer has been leading the fight against drugs in the Stanger area.

The KwaDukuza Cluster’s war on drugs claimed another victory as they arrested four men outside Stanger Secondary School on Wednesday, September 4.
The Cluster had previously arrested a drug dealer on August 16. (‘Police bust drug dealer’, Courier, August 23)
Cluster Commander Brigadier Captain-Hastibeer’s undercover officers arrested the men in the morning with around R50 000 in cash seized as well 200 straws of ‘sugars’.
‘Sugars’ is a street drug consisting of a mix of heroin and other substances like ratX and cocaine.
The Brigadier’s unit surrounded the men in an Isuzu bakkie after arranging to buy the drugs.
The agents had been buying drugs from the main dealer for two weeks prior to the bust.
Brigadier Captain-Hastibeer hopes to charge the main suspect with three counts of dealing. His agents previously bought 100 straws on two separate occasions and had video evidence to justify the arrests.
Once the arrests were made, the unit went with the dealer to his house in the Lloyds area just outside Stanger, where they searched the residence for drugs. They collected evidence and seized a flat screen TV that is suspected to have been stolen. Drug residue samples were also collected.
Sugars are highly addictive and is currently a serious problem on the North Coast. A straw can be bought for R25, making it easily affordable, which only compounds addiction.
“It is the most addictive drug, more so than any other,” the Brigadier said.
“Once you smoke one straw you are hooked.”

The bag of 'Sugars' that police seized from the dealers. Each straw sell for R25.
The bag of ‘Sugars’ that police seized from the dealers. Each straw sell for R25.

 

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