The national police commissioner‚ speaking from the crime scene on Thursday morning‚ said: 'It goes directly against government's initiatives for rural developments when a property intended for farming is used to produce illicit substances.'
National police commissioner General Khehla John Sitole on Thursday praised his detectives for sniffing out a clandestine laboratory‚ leading to the arrest of three people on charges related to manufacturing and distributing a schedule 6 drug.
Pretoria police raided a farmhouse in the Vasfontein area of Hammanskraal just outside the capital city on Wednesday. "An array of steroids in the form of tablets for oral intake and liquid intended to be consumed intravenously was being manufactured on this farm‚" police said in a statement. A 55-year-old qualified pharmacist‚ his 52-year-old life partner and a 38-year-old employee were arrested on the scene.
The team confiscated large amounts of finished products as well as chemicals‚ machines including a tablet presser‚ a mixer‚ a tablet-coating machine ‚ two pistols‚ of which one is unlicensed‚ and a loaded shotgun along with several rounds of ammunition.
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