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Jul 24, 2008 News
Drug agents from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday arrested a 21-year old female national of the United States of America who tried to smuggle more than a kilogram of cocaine through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
The woman was held after drug agents found the cocaine secreted in the false walls of two suitcases she had checked in.
According to a CANU agent, at about 04:50 hours the woman was about to check in on a Caribbean Airlines flight to JFK International Airport, New York, via Trinidad when she was stopped by a CANU officer at the internal scanner.
A search of her suitcases revealed several plastic parcels of a cream-coloured substance that was suspected to be cocaine.
She was arrested and brought to the city and when the substance was extracted and weighed it was found to be 14 parcels of cocaine which amounted to in excess of one kilogramme, valued at US$25,000.
The CANU agent disclosed that they are investigating the origin of the suitcase, which the American said was given to her by a local resident.
The woman reportedly came to Guyana from New York via Barbados on July 17 and stayed at a hotel in the city.
She is expected to be placed before the courts shortly.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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