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Gelvandale Drug Bust

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The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Metro Police and Gelvandale SA Police Service busted a suspected drug den in Gelvandale during an intelligence driven operation on Sunday night.

A total of 363 dagga “zolls” were found at the house in Samble Street, together with seven boxes of adcodol tablets, 81 medium bags of dagga, 363 small bags of dagga, loose dagga and an undisclosed amount of money.

The Metro’s Electricity and Energy officials found the same house to have been tampering with electricity and a R4000 fine was issued.

NMBM Metro Police Acting Commissioner, Advocate Andrew Moses said: “The joint operation was aimed to identify illegal taverns and check for compliance to legal and illegal liquor establishments in terms of their operations and NMBM bylaws. There is prevalence in alcohol abuse, high noise levels in the area and cases of electricity theft hence we roped in our electricity colleagues. When we arrived at the house in Samble Street, we found they had tampered with electricity but upon searching that is when we found the drugs in a back room. We were told the owner was out of town and therefore we could not make any arrest, but the case has been registered with SAPS. We have managed to remove drugs from our streets and we will continue with these kinds of operations.”

A fine of R12 000 was issued at the Blue-note Sport Bar after electricity officials discovered electricity tampering at the establishment.

“We want to issue a stern warning to all those who break the law in our Metro that we will be conducting more of these operations. Working closely with our stakeholders we are committed to working towards a drug free Nelson Mandela Bay, a safer City. We urge our residents to come forward and report these drug dens that are destroying our youth and contributing to other criminal activities in our City,” Advocate Moses said.

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