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Court eviction in PE turns into drug bust

Thousands of Mandrax tablets confiscated during an eviction in Port Elizabeth

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A 59-year-old man from New Brighton in Port Elizabeth has been arrested following a twist of fate which resulted in the confiscation of mandrax tablets with a street value of R300 000.

Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says members of the Public Order Policing were assisting the Sheriff’s office with an eviction in Soncenywa Street at around 9 am.

She says as they were carrying a headboard out of the house a packet containing mandrax tablets fell out of it.

The entire focus of the operation was then shifted, and members searched the house before coming across more than 4 500 tablets.

Naidu says the man was arrested and is expected to appear in the New Brighton Magistrates’ court soon.