Besters police officers made a drug bust while patrolling the N3 northbound during the early hours of Saturday morning (May 16).
The officers stopped a white bakkie with four male occupants and conducted a search of the vehicle.
The search turned up 14 maize meal bags packed with loose dagga.
The four suspects, aged between 27 and 63 years old, were immediately arrested and detained at Ladysmith SAPS.
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The suspects appeared in the Ladysmith Magistrate’s Court on Monday (May 18), facing charges of dealing in dagga.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Khombinkosi Jula, praised the officers for the arrests and recovery of drugs.
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