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A WOMAN from Entumbane suburb in Bulawayo was on Friday fined $60 after pleading guilty to illegal possession of dagga. Janet Ndlovu, believed to be behind a syndicate selling drugs to school children in the city, was arrested last Wednesday. Ndlovu — known as MaHadebe to her underage customers — pleaded guilty to possessing dagga before Bulawayo magistrate Tinashe Tashaya.
Magistrate Tashaya ordered her to pay a $60 fine or face imprisonment. Prosecuting, Taurai Hondoyemoto said on March 29, Ndlovu was approached by police officers outside her Entumbane home.
“Police officers were on patrol after receiving a tip-off to the effect that Ndlovu was dealing in dangerous drugs. Acting on the information, they searched her house and recovered 33 sachets of dagga in a plastic bucket that Ndlovu was carrying,” said Hondoyemoto.
“The dagga was weighed in Ndlovu’s presence and it weighed 40 grammes with a street value of $40.”
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