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Jan 26, 2009 News
By Latoya Giles
A fifty-nine-year-old citizen of the United States of America is presently in police custody after a quantity of cocaine was discovered in her hand luggage.
The incident occurred at around 08:45 hrs yesterday, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, as the woman was about to board a flight back to her homeland.
According to a police press release, a check by ranks revealed that a total of 1kg. 235 grams of suspected cocaine was concealed in the checked luggage and hand piece of the woman’s luggage.
The woman’s daughter, Petal Caesar, told Kaieteur News that her mother received a call from a friend in the US on Saturday night, asking her to carry up her (the caller) son’s photo album.
She further told Kaieteur News that the son and daughter-in-law of the woman who made the request both came to the home and dropped off the album.
She explained that, “My mother just took the album and placed it in her granddaughter’s suitcase, since her own was filled.”
The daughter said that she did not accompany her mother to the airport, but other relatives were there with her.
She said that about a half an hour later, she got a phone call informing her about what had happened at the airport.
Caesar said that her mother told the police everything, and the police went to the home of the two persons, but they had left the building.
The daughter opined that the couple may have gotten a tip-off from persons who knew what had taken place at the airport.
She said that her mother has been travelling back and forth between Guyana and the US for some 26 years, and nothing like this ever happened before.
According to police sources, charges may be instituted against the woman.
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