Overview
- An intelligence-led, multidisciplinary team raided the Blue Hills property on Tuesday evening, 28 October, after receiving information about stored drugs.
- The operation involved Crime Intelligence Head Office, the Gauteng Organised Crime Unit, the Johannesburg K9 Unit and the Local Criminal Record Centre.
- Officers found the cocaine, valued at about R20 million, concealed in a storage room on the premises.
- A 56-year-old man believed to own the smallholding was arrested on-site and is expected to appear in the Midrand Magistrate’s Court this week on possession and dealing charges.
- Police warn that syndicates are increasingly using farms and private plots for illicit activities, citing recent busts in Mpumalanga and airport interceptions as part of a broader crackdown.