CAPE TOWN: A local guesthouse owner living in upmarket Sunset Beach, her Cypriot boyfriend and her younger sister were arrested for drug smuggling allegations after they were found with tens of thousands of Mandrax tablets, worth R2.8 million.
The trio are to be tried in the Priority Crimes Court in Khayelitsha later this month.
In an affidavit, investigator Charmaine van Vuuren said Elizabeth Lynette McAllister, her boyfriend Marios Theodoulou and her sister Amanda McAllister were arrested after police received information that Elizabeth McAllister had received a consignment of drugs from Gauteng.
When they went to her home in Sunset Beach, she, her boyfriend and her sister were outside the premises.
The two women left in the Caddy, and police followed them to an apartment complex in Table View, where they saw them carry a heavy bag to one of the units.
According to Van Vuuren, when they peeped through the open bathroom window they saw the women counting what appeared to be Mandrax tablets, prompting them to force open the front door and enter.
The women’s hands and clothing were covered in a white powder.
A tag attached to the bag carried an address which was later established to be that of McAllister’s guesthouse in Table View.
Police also confiscated McAllister’s diary and her sister’s black notebook, both of which contained entries that appeared to be drug transactions.
More tablets, believed to be Mandrax, were found in the Caddy.
The drugs were confiscated and police seized large amounts of cash which they found during their investigation, before the women were arrested.
Meanwhile, other police officers went to the Sunset Beach house, where Theodoulou was arrested, and where they discovered that the Caddy was registered in the name of a Ferdi Khoza, who had given McAllister permission to use it to travel over the border to Mozambique.
