Overview
- KwaZulu-Natal police recovered 32 blocks of suspected cocaine during an intelligence-led search at Durban harbour.
- Officers from Durban Operational Response Services and the Serious Organised Crime Investigations Unit found the bricks in a bus’s air-conditioning compartment.
- The buses arrived from a South American country and were destined for Gauteng, according to police.
- Targeted vessel profiling followed an earlier Gauteng drug bust that pointed to Durban as the entry route.
- Police have opened a case and launched a manhunt for the shippers and the intended recipients of the consignment.