It’s a long journey from South America to the Cape coast. At least the drug cartels know that once cocaine touches down on our shores, there will no shortage of takers.
Footage shared by the Mexican Army shows the high-speed pursuit, which ended with three arrests and three tonnes of cocaine seized.
If you were hoping to get up to mischief in Durban this coming weekend, a recent bust could somewhat scupper your plans.
One of South Africa’s biggest drug busts, which took place in March along the West Coast, has seen three Bulgarian nationals sentenced.
Law enforcement seized a cocaine haul estimated to be worth around R583 million on Monday evening. Turns out that may have been a diversion.
Police intercepted a fishing vessel off the coast of Saldanha yesterday evening, and came away with a massive cocaine haul.
Early on Sunday morning, a truck carrying an estimated R30 million worth of cocaine was intercepted en route to Cape Town. The Hawks, along with the driver, deserve a great deal of credit.
If you were offered a whopping amount of money to act as a drug-smuggler’s decoy, would you take it? Don’t – that’s what got the cocaine babes into trouble.
Sailing around the Caribbean on a yacht sounds like a pretty good time, but when you are carrying over two tonnes of cocaine on board things can go south very quickly.