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Nov 07, 2013 News
Tests carried out on a quantity of local sweets seized from a White Water, North West District shop have confirmed that they were laced with cocaine.
Police had confiscated the sweets after children, whose ages range from three to 12, came down with vomiting and diarrhea when they ate it.
They were treated at the Mabaruma Hospital.
Police in a press statement yesterday said, “A number of the sweets that were seized by the police from a vendor and children at White Water, NWD, on Sunday November 03, 2013, following reports that three children who had eaten the sweets had shown unusual reactions, have tested positive for the presence of cocaine.”
According to a police source, 88 of the sweets tested positive for the highly addictive drug, from which dealers make billions of dollars.
The sweets were wrapped in paper that bore the brand of a popular local sweet manufacturer.
Police have already taken a statement from the shopkeeper who claimed that he had purchased the sweets in a sealed packet from another distributor.
They will now have to trace the path of the sweets to determine who might be responsible for the presence of the drug in the sweets.
“We will have to trace the origin of the sweets. They were in Beharry wraps but it does not necessarily mean that it was manufactured by them; we have to investigate,” a senior police source told Kaieteur News.
“This is a serious thing. I don’t think that the vendor will know that cocaine was inside and sell it for a mere $20 to children. Cocaine is a very expensive drug,” the source said.
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