{"id":1002411,"date":"2022-02-24T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T07:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/look-at-what-saps-found-in-phoenix-kzn-leaving-tongues-wagging\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T07:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T07:23:39","slug":"look-at-what-saps-found-in-phoenix-kzn-leaving-tongues-wagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/look-at-what-saps-found-in-phoenix-kzn-leaving-tongues-wagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Look at what SAPS found in Phoenix KZN, Leaving tongues wagging."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Four people were taken into custody as police conducted a raid at a well-known drug house in Westham, Phoenix on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It is anticipated that the suspects would appear in the Verulam Magistrate\u2019s Court this week to face charges of being in possession of narcotics. According to Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a police spokeswoman, police officers from the Phoenix division conducted an intelligence operation on Wareham Place in Westham, Massachusetts, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree individuals were apprehended by the police during the operation after they were discovered to be in possession of narcotics.\u201d \u201cWe discovered 650 heroin capsules in the hands of the suspects, who ranged in age from 18 to 46,\u201d she said. She went on to say that the police then went to Charclay Gardens in Clayfield, where they discovered a 31-year-old guy in possession of 20 pills of mandrax and five pieces of cocaine, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>The operations follow a narcotics bust that took place at Univale Place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/17d95613cd6940e090308e7da0e7de3b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Lieutenant-Colonel Nqobile Gwala, a police spokeswoman, officers from the Provincial Drug and Firearm Unit launched an operation at Univale Place during that event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the cops came, the outside of the building had been left vacant. Following a check of the outside of the building and the backyard, officers discovered 10 200 heroin capsules and 1 190 pieces of rock cocaine, which they confiscated. A total of R3 000 in cash was also discovered. The narcotics seized are worth a total of R425 000. The authorities are still on the lookout for the culprits who have escaped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/09e42c93e4de4e63ace3936bf3ecb53a\" alt=\"FOUR suspects were expected to appear at the Verulam Magistrates Court for being in possession of drugs. Picture: &lt;a class=\" tag-body=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/za.opera.news\/tags\/saps\"\/>SAPS\u201d\/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Gwala urged members of the public to continue to cooperate with the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<p>Police pounce on \u2018well-known drug den\u2019 in Phoenix, four suspects caught with heroin (iol.co.za)<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Sphithiphithi_Evaluator (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were taken into custody as police conducted a raid at a well-known drug house in Westham, Phoenix on Friday. It is anticipated that the suspects would appear in the Verulam Magistrate\u2019s Court this week to face charges of being in possession of narcotics. According to Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a police spokeswoman, police officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1002412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}