Pretoria: -Yesterday, a 22-year-old woman, travelling on a Norwegian-issued passport, has appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court after she was arrested late on Friday for dealing in drugs. At the time of her arrest the suspect was found in possession of 17 kilogrammes of…
Pretoria – The Hawks have on Monday morning arrested seven suspects in Potchefstroom, North West as well as Eldorado Park in Johannesburg for dealing in drugs. The suspects, six men and one woman, were nabbed during an early morning raid in the two townships. The…
Pretoria: A dedicated task team comprising different units of the South African Police Service (SAPS), has been carrying out multidisciplinary, intelligence-driven operations in the drug-infested Eldoradopark, Johannesburg since December 2015. The operation was initiated to manage the scourge of general and drug-related crimes and their…
Pretoria – A 33-year-old man from Kwazakhele in Port Elizabeth will appear before the Motherwell Magistrate's Court on Monday after he was arrested for dealing in mandrax on Thursday. The Hawks in the Eastern Cape have been on the suspect's radar for some time now…
Pretoria : A joint intelligence-driven operation between the South African Police Service (SAPS) crime fighting units, including the Hawks made a breakthrough today in its efforts to curb drug dealing, when five people, including a senior police officer suspected of being part of a drug trafficking syndicate operating in and around the Johannesburg area were arrested. The 51-year-old colonel was arrested just after…
Pretoria : 5 October 2015 – In line with the government’s National Drug Master Plan, the South African Police Service (SAPS) is committed itself to ensuring that last week’s country wide operation, during which drug dens were raided throughout the country, becomes a regular feature…
Mothers of drug-addicted children often have to suffer the pain of seeing their children deteriorate and feeling helpless after having trying everything, to get them help. Often, these mothers also have to deal with angry communities as a result of their children’s actions. But, in…
In November 2009, 50-year old Liz Warren, a popular chef in the seaside town of Hermanus, was arrested in Senegal for drug smuggling. In June 2013, Gauteng businessman Gerhard Hattingh was imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling. Desperate or greedy, naïve or deceived, there are…
Pretoria : 7 July 2015 - Today a 52 year old man has appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court after he was arrested at the weekend by the South African Police Service's Transnational Investigation Team as he was about to smuggle crystal meth worth…
This week Special Assignment investigates the link between drug smuggling and human trafficking. The recent execution of eight of the ‘Bali Nine’ drug smugglers in Indonesia has once again turned the world’s spotlight on the transnational drug trade and the punishment for this crime. In…