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Oct 06, 2014 News
The ever vigilant Police Anti-Narcotics ranks stationed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri yesterday intercepted an outgoing passenger on his way to New York with almost six kilograms of cocaine.
The drug was concealed in four bottles of 15 year old El Dorado rum.
This newspaper understands that at about 03:30 hours, the ranks stopped the Guyanese man who was about to board BW 524 to JFK International Airport in New York, USA.
His suitcase was checked and ranks observed that the four bottles of rum seemed unusually heavy for the liquid that it was supposed to contain.
A quick field test was done on the rum and it was found to contain a substance other than liquor.
The man was escorted to Georgetown where the police analyst conducted further tests which confirmed that the rum was laced with cocaine.
The drug was subsequently extracted and found to weigh almost six kilograms. The man has been arrested and is assisting police with their investigations.
Earlier this week, police anti-narcotics ranks Police anti narcotics agents put a huge dent in the operations of marijuana farmers in the Upper Demerara River district, raiding and destroying several acres of cultivated plants, with a street value that could reach as high as US$20M.
The agents had carried out the raid last Tuesday at a location called Hauraruni.
So far for this year, police narcotics ranks were involved in several similar operations in the Berbice and Demerara River areas as well as the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
They have managed to destroy more than 180,000 marijuana plants and close to 400,000 tonnes in harvested cannabis.
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