Airline worker also a drug mule
2008-08-25 21:10
Johannesburg - A 27-year-old Namibian man appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court on Monday on a drug possession charge, police said.
Spokesperson Captain Dennis Adriao said Douglas Albrightson, a crew member for an international airline, was arrested on Saturday at Cape Town International Airport.
"He was stopped and searched by the police who found 230 grams of cocaine with estimated street value of R66 171 hidden in his underpants."
Albrightson was remanded to September 3.
Cape Town International Airport Port of Entry police together with the organised crime unit arrested a number of alleged drug mules in the past few weeks, Adriao said.
A 37-year-old Nigerian man was arrested on July 29 when they found 3kg of what appeared to be tik with an estimated street value of R900 000.
On July 31 police arrested a 60-year-old South African male with 4kg of cocaine with an estimated value of R4.8m hidden in his luggage.
On August 15, a Nigerian national was arrested when police found in his luggage 3 packets of ecstasy tablets worth R120 000, a bag of tik worth R50 000 and a bag of cocaine rocks worth R30 000.
Another Nigerian man, 33, was arrested on August 17 when he was found with 1kg of tik worth R50 000 and R37 000 in cash.
- SAPA