Police intensify anti-drug campaigns

Andiswa Mkosi

13 January 2012

Western Cape police say they are planning to launch more anti drug campaigns to catch drug smugglers at the Cape Town International Airport .

They have already arrested 34 smugglers and  confiscated narcotics which had an estimated street value of R7 million last year. Frederick van Wyk of the police says that the common drugs they came across were crystal meth and cocaine.
 

The mother of a Western Cape drug mule arrested in Peru for smuggling narcotics said her daughter was in need of serious medical care.

Luzaan Maartens was arrested in 2009, after police caught her with two kilograms of cocaine and was sentenced to six and a half years in jail.