Police confiscate thousands of mandrax tablets

A 27-year-old man from Soweto has been arrested after being caught with 110-thousand mandrax tablets with an estimated street value of almost six million rand. Western Cape police say the man was travelling through Beaufort West en route to Cape Town when an inspector of the Saps’ Vehicle-Identification-System Unit spotted a suspicious-looking car with a trailer and, assisted by a traffic official, pulled it off. The police officer conducted a search and found the tablets hidden at the bottom of the trailer. The man will appear in the Beaufort West magistrate’s court on Thursday on a charge of dealing in an illegal substance.