The female constable took it upon herself to move the pythons. Photo: SAPS

A drug merchant from Hendriena in Mpumalanga imagined that he could keep police at bay by hiding his drugs beneath his pet pythons. But the drug merchant was in for a surprise or two.

On the afternoon of 3 November police descended on the merchant’s house and told him to open the glass tank in which the pythons were as they had been tipped off that the drugs were kept underneath the snakes.

To the surprise of everyone a female constable got hold of the pythons and moved them in order to search the area. Ninety (90) pinches of nyaope were found at the premises. The man was arrested and charged for possession of drugs.