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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...
Arrest of three Guyanese on Saturday, including a brother and sister, in Trinidad with various amounts of cocaine.Officials in Trinidad have confirmed that they have held a Guyanese taxi driver after cocaine was found in the walls of his suitcase. They have also held a Florida-based real estate broker and his sister who had the illegal drug strapped to their bodies.The suspects arrived in Trinidad on Saturday, and were in-transit to other destinations when they were apprehended.According to a source in the twin-island republic, at about 07:50 hours,...
Troopers say they stopped Jose Antonio Avianeda Bahena, 23, of Brevard, N.C., on Sunday after watching him follow another car too closely and seeing his brake light was out. Troopers say a police dog sniffing around the car jumped through an open window to reach the car's center console. Underneath the console were 12 bundles of cocaine, weighing more than 26 pounds, police said. Bahena is being held in the St. Francis County Jail on charges of defective equipment, felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and felony possession...
15-member crew of a South African Airways jetliner was arrested today at London's Heathrow Airport after border agents found 110 pounds of marijuana and about 10 pounds of cocaine in three suitcases, AFP reports. The crew — 10 women and five men, including the pilot — was detained while passing through a customs checkpoint, shortly after landing on the flight from Johannesburg. The pot was valued at $210,000 and the coke roughly $320,000."Interviews will be taking place and will probably go into tomorrow, and then we will decide whether we are...
Moorhead authorities seized $2,000 worth of white heroin, a semiautomatic handgun and $2,600 in an investigation that also led to the arrest of four people. A traffic stop in the 1800 block of 20th Street South in Moorhead late Thursday led to the seizure of 41 bindles of white heroin, which is similar in appearance to a powder cocaine and very rare in the region, Moorhead Lt. Brad Penas said. Black tar heroin is more common in the area, he said.During...
27-foot boat and two men with suspicious answers. A dog sniffed, the men rolled and authorities soon had a cocaine conspiracy.Palm Beach police learned of a Wellcraft boat arriving from the Bahamas through the Palm Beach Inlet, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's Office.Palm Beach officers stopped the boat shortly after 8 p.m. Boat operator Calvin Roberts, 34, from the Bahamas, told them the vessel belonged to a friend and they were taking it to Riviera Beach to have work done. But he didn't know his friend's...
Leroy Carr first came to the attention of federal agents at the Washington-Canadian border after being spotted with equipment commonly used by smugglers, including night-vision goggles and a Global Positioning System device.According to the U.S. Attorney's office, in August of 2007 Carr called federal agents and told them he had stashed two backpacks containing nearly 70 pounds of cocaine near the border.Agents say Carr wanted them to send a press release saying the cocaine had been seized, so that the smuggling ring he worked for would not retaliate...
Philadelphia police say they've arrested three people who were trafficking 68 kilograms of cocaine.Deputy Commissioner Bill Blackburn says the cocaine was hidden inside furniture that was filled a rental truck. Police stopped the truck Friday afternoon in the Juniata Park neighborhood of Philadelphia and got a search warrant.In addition to the cocaine, Blackburn says police seized three handguns and "an undetermined amount of U.S. currency."Blackburn says investigators are still trying to determine the real names of the three people arrested. He...
Customs say they have disrupted a tobacco smuggling ring after they executed search and seizure warrants in Perth.Investigations began on December 19 when Customs officers at the Fremantle Container Examination Facility selected a container from the United Arab Emirates for inspection.When officers unpacked the container they detected 24kg of undeclared molasses-flavoured tobacco.The tobacco was found in six boxes labelled as tomato paste and randomly distributed throughout the cargo container. Each box contained eight 500g satchels of the tobacco.Customs...
A man has been arrested in Dublin following the seizure of heroin with an estimated street value of €100,000.A garda spokesman said the heroin was seized following the search of a building in the Benburb St area of Dublin late last night.The man in his early 40s is currently being detained at Store Street Garda stati...
Edmonton-based Lebanese gang set up a staffing system similar to that used by oil rigs and diamond mines, where teams of two dealers would rotate into Iqaluit every six weeks, typically importing a half million dollars in product each time and exporting a similar quantity of cash on the way out.RCMP Constable James Morrison, one of the lead investigators, said there was no crack in Iqaluit before the gang hit town. Soon, local residents were burning through their life's savings to pay the steep price of $200 per 0.8-gram hit, and some turned to...
