Media Statement from Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigation (HAWKS)
South African Police Service

Pretoria- The Hawks in Kwazulu-Natal have on Tuesday arrested ten suspects who were allegedly running a heroine manufacturing lab at an up market suburb in Durban.

Police’s suspicions of illegal activities in the Plush House in Ramsgate proved to be positive when the suspects; four Malawian, four Zimbabwean nationals and two Indians with South African origin were busted in the act of manufacturing, weighing and packaging heroine as well as the much sought after heroine green straws estimated to be worth R10 million.

The suspects, whose ages range between 22 and 29 years, will be appear in court soon, facing charges of dealing in heroine.

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