Online Reporter
Zvikomborero Parafini
A TEN-MEMBER gang of Chinese nationals, who were allegedly busted in a wild party fuelled by drugs, spent the night in remand custody.
The gang is expected in court today for bail ruling.
Huang Zhen, Yu Hefeng, Dong Yunmei, Yang Wanwan, Wu Yuejun, Yang Qin, Fang Yue, Sun Jie, Yao Wenming and Li Zhongju appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Vakai Chikwekwe charged with dealing in dangerous drugs.
Prosecutors alleged that on Monday, detectives received a tip-off to the effect that there was rampant drug abuse at Number 60, Knights Bridge Road, Newlands, Harare.
Acting on the tip-off, the detectives went to the lodge and pounced on four male Chinese adults.
They were found in a lounge where they were allegedly sniffing cocaine.
The four drug abusers implicated Zhen, who was partying with others in the next lounge.
Detectives proceeded to the next lounge and observed another gang taking turns to sniff cocaine placed in a wooden tray.
They were using a playing card to sniff.
The police officers seized the white powder, which the gang members were sniffing from the wooden tray, and placed it in a marked plastic sachet.
Detectives also seized the wooden tray and golden playing card.
Detectives went on to conduct searches and seized two transparent plastic sachets of cocaine from a small cream handbag which Zhen was holding.
The police also seized benzodiazepine and crystal meth.
Mathew Masinge