Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Harsh sentence for drug lords

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Drug abuse in Chatsworth has spiralled out of control. Rut even amidst the hundreds of lives that are being destroyed and lost to drugs, police are making some progress.

The recent arrest of the so-called 'Drug Queen" Ranjini Chelty. 40 and her associates should be seen as a warning to all dealers in Chatsworth. The prosecution led their case with evidence from a former customer of Chetty's. who had lost a successful business as a result of his addiction to rock cocaine. He had spent an estimated R3.5 million on drugs over a three-year period.

The addict had resorted to employing a man to chain him to burglar guards and attend to his needs in a desperate effort to break his addiction. On the witness stand, he described drug dealers as a "scourge*.

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