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Mar 03, 2009 News
– says he swallowed more
Police have retrieved 53 packets containing cocaine excreted by a Jamaican national who was apprehended at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri last Thursday.
The man, Richard Rudolph Gayle, 38, has been cooperating with police, and had taken laxatives to aid in the excretion of the drug.
Gayle was taken into custody at around 05:00 hours on the aforementioned day by the Police Narcotics Unit, under the suspicion that he had swallowed pellets containing cocaine for the intent of trafficking.
He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where X-rays of his abdomen showed several foreign objects in his stomach.
The Jamaican, who arrived in Guyana on February 26, was an outbound passenger at the CJIA heading for Trinidad and Tobago, when he was searched by the Customs and Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU).
Their initial search uncovered no drugs on his person, but Gayle was later detained by the Police Narcotics Unit.
A senior police official told this newspaper that Gayle is still being monitored, since he indicated that he had ingested more than the 53 pellets that he has already excreted.
A few weeks ago another Jamaican national, Errol Barrett, spent three days at the GPHC before finally excreting the pellets containing the illicit substance. None of the pellets containing the drug ruptured in his stomach.
Over the last few years, several drug mules have died when the pellets containing the drugs they were trafficking burst while still inside of them.
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