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Police arrest a suspect and recover drugs from residence in Cookhouse
Police arrest a 31-year-old suspect and recover dagga after executing a search warrant in Cookhouse.

It is alleged that at on Wednesday 18 August 2021 at about 18:00 members of Cookhouse and Somerset East Crime Prevention Units were busy with a crime prevention operation in Nyanga Street, Cookhouse when they received information of a house where dagga was possibly being sold.

Upon executing a search at the house in Nyanga Street, the members recovered two bags of compressed dagga and 22 sachets of dagga with a combined weight of 1.8 kilograms with the estimated street value of R300,00.

A substantial amount of cash was recovered.

The suspect was arrested and will appear before Somerset East Magistrates’ Court soon on charges of dealing in drugs.