Hawks investigators nabbed an alleged member of a Cape Town cocaine syndicate thanks to the honesty of a truck driver who had inadvertently become a drug mule.
The Eastern Cape Hawks co-ordinated with their colleagues in the Western Cape and explained to them that the refrigerated shipping container which arrived at Port Elizabeth harbour, and which was heading to Cape Town, may contain drugs.
There the investigating officer in the case searched panels at the back of the refrigerated container where he found two compartments containing 20 and 18 bricks of cocaine wrapped in brown tape.The head of the Western Cape DPP authorised a sting operation. At 2:20am on Sunday the truck arrived at the petrol station and, as requested by Williams, pulled up to a truck parking bay.According to the state, he then opened his door, got out and retrieved a silver step ladder from the back of his car and started climbing up to open the panels where he was expecting to find the precious stash.
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