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South Africa: Mozambican drug dealer who was arrested at a Covid-19 roadblock sentenced
10:55 CAT | 31 Jul 2023
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- Lewis Johnson, 69, has been sentenced to 15 years for drug dealing. The Mozambican national was arrested during a South African police Covid-19 roadblock.
Calvinia Regional Court, in South Africa’s Northern Cape province, sentenced Lewis Johnson (69) to an effective fifteen (15) years imprisonment for drug dealing. The sentencing took place on Thursday, 27 July 2023.
Lewis Johnson, a Mozambican national was arrested during a Police COVID 19 roadblock.
Police stopped a White LWB van and requested a permit from the driver since it was stage level 5. The driver could not produce the necessary permit and members continued to search the said vehicle, on searching the vehicle Police discovered drugs, Tik (crystal methamphetamine) weighting 12.6 Kg with an estimated street value of R 3 971 268. The Hawks Serious Organised Crime Investigation team successfully investigated the matter resulting in a conviction.
The accused was further declared unfit to possess a firearm.
Reflecting on the sentence, the Provincial Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Steve Mabuela ‘the sentence will definitely send the necessary message out there, that drug dealing is bad and destroying the Country’s youth’ concluded the General.
Source: South African Police Service - SAPS
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