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Nov 01, 2009 News
An alert security guard attached to John Fernandes wharf helped snatch a shipment of compressed marijuana destined for the local market early yesterday.
According to reports from a group of fishermen near the wharf, at the time of the incident, pandemonium broke out shortly before four yesterday morning.
The incoming vessel, Stadt Rendsburg, had sailed from Venezuela three days ago. However, it is not clear whether the drug was loaded there.
In Port Georgetown one of the porters who must have been alerted to the shipment, tossed the compressed marijuana overboard to waiting boats below.
A member of the law enforcement fraternity explained that more often than not, when vessels arrive in Port Georgetown with narcotics, someone boards the vessel and dumps the illegal shipments overboard.
Small boats are recruited earlier and they hover near the ships to collect the drugs as they come over the side.
Yesterday morning the system was in place but the guards were on the lookout because just two weeks earlier there was a similar action and by the time the guards reacted the small boats had already recovered the drugs and sped away, leaving shocked guards in their wake.
As soon as the bags started coming over the side the guards clambered aboard to arrest the stevedore who was tossing them over. At the same time others dived overboard to grab the bags.
They recovered a large jute bag and many smaller packets contained in large plastic bags. One spokesman said that there might have been more packets although the word is that the team managed to recover all.
Immediately the guards notified the Customs Anti Narcotics unit and the police who rushed to the wharf. The stevedore is in custody but those manning the boats managed to escape.
The size of the bust was not readily available. All CANU would say is that investigations are ongoing.
The law enforcers have questioned the captain and crew of the Stadt Rendsburg who have all been confined to the ship until further notice.
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