THREE Harare women have each been handed five-year jail terms for dealing in dangerous drugs.
Sibusiso Ndlovu, Caroline Silver Mafra and Patience Murinda
(32) appeared before Regional Magistrate Ignatio Mhene.
Magistrate Mhene slapped the three with seven-year
imprisonment each, before two years were set aside on condition of good
behaviour.
Five years shall be effective.
It is the State’s case that on April 1, 2021, Mafra was
travelling from Brazil, with a contraband of drugs and was expected to arrive
in Harare on the next day.
Upon receiving the information, a team of detectives from
CID Homicide and CID Law and Order, proceeded to Robert Gabriel Mugabe
International Airport and arrested Mafra.
Murinda and Ndlovu were driving a blue BMW motor vehicle at
Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to pick their partner Mafra.
Murinda and Ndlovu were identified and picked by detectives
and interviewed.
The detectives discovered that they were acting on
instructions from one Bobby, a Nigerian man, to receive Mafra and accompany her
to her guest house.
After being interviewed, they led detectives to their homes
where they found seven fabric samples from their bedrooms.
In between each fabric sample, there was a transparent
plastic containing brown sticky powdered substances, which detectives suspected
to be cocaine.
It was seized.
On April 8 2021, the seized seven sachets were taken to the
forensic science laboratory for examination, and tested positive to heroin.
The total mass of tested heroin was 242 grammes with a
street value of $1 632 355. H Metro
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