The suspect, Suleiman Amour, was apprehended by the police
while he was a passenger in a truck that was towing a trailer. Two accomplices
of his, who are still on the run, were travelling with him.
The Chronicle reports that police discovered the crystal meth in lunch boxes concealed
in false compartments of the trailer during a routine roadblock at the 18km peg
along the Bulawayo-Plumtree Road.
Amour’s trial was scheduled to start before Western
Commonage magistrate, Mr Vakai Douglas Chikwekwe, but was postponed due to a
language barrier. As a result, the hearing has been postponed to November 8 to
allow the State to secure a translator.
Amour was charged with possession of specially restricted
substances and is in custody until he appears in court again. According to the
prosecutor Mr Milton Moyo, Amour travelled to Zimbabwe through the Mozambique
border and was transporting the drugs to South Africa.
Mr Moyo said preliminary tests conducted on the recovered
samples confirmed that the substance was methamphetamine, and it weighed 192kg
with a street value of US$987 000.
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