Cape Town: African police seized 800,000 pounds of drugs with the help of a sniffer dog.
According to international media reports, police stopped and searched a suspicious vehicle in the Western Cape last night on a tip-off.
Drugs were hidden in the secret lady of the car, which is being transported to Cape Town.
Police in the Worcester area of Massachusetts searched the vehicle but failed to find the drug, after which a sniffer dog was brought near the vehicle.
The dog confirmed the presence of drugs in the vehicle, after which police conducted a comprehensive search of the van and found a large quantity of narcotic pills and other drugs inside.
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A police spokesman said a 51-year-old driver belonging to a global drug trafficking group was arrested in an operation in the Worcester area on Tuesday night.
Nine of the police intelligence agency said it had received information that a white Mercedes laden with drugs was heading to Cape Town.
According to police, the man arrested was from Wellegen, who had been arraigned in Worcester on drug charges.
