WESTERN CAPE - Police in the Western Cape arrested five suspects in three isolated incidents in possession of drugs and an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in Steenberg and Malmesbury policing precinct respectively.

Steenberg police conducted an intelligence driven operation on Friday, 2023-02-10 at around 19:30. The convoy proceeded to an address in Grindal Avenue and confiscated a consignment of Mandrax tablets. They arrested a 24-year-old man on a charge of possession of drugs.

In an unrelated intervention on Saturday, 11 February 2023, the members reacted on information of drugs being stored at an address in Albertus Court in Steenberg. They immediately operationalised the information and entered a premises and searched it, confiscating 80 mandrax tablets and 29 sachets filled with methamphetamine. The members then arrested a 38-year-old male on a charge of possession of drugs.

Meanwhile, police members responded to information in the early hours of Monday, 13 February 2023 and proceeded to an address in Section A, Phola Park in Malmesbury. Upon their arrival they searched the entire premises and confiscated a 9mm pistol with ammunition and arrested and detained three males aged between 26 and 29 on a charge of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.

Once charged the suspects are expected to make their respective court appearances in the Wynberg and Malmesbury Magistrate court’s on the mentioned charges.

Source: South African Police Service