Cheddi Jagan :Fifty-nine-year-old citizen of the United States of America is presently in police custody after a quantity of cocaine was discovered

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.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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Arrest of three Guyanese on Saturday, including a brother and sister, in Trinidad with various amounts of cocaine.

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, the 34-year-old Guyanese taxi driver was about to board BW 416 en route to St. Maarten when officers from the Organized Crime, Narcotics and Firearms Bureau of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force, who were on patrol at the airport, carried out a search of his luggage.
During the search, 2.6 kilograms of cocaine, with a street value of TT$1M, were discovered.He was charged for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
And, seven hours later, the 34-year-old real estate broker and his 36-year-old sister were about to board BW 480 en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA when they, too, were searched by the officers, who had observed their suspicious actions.
The drug agents found two kilograms of cocaine with a street value of TT$800,000 strapped to the man’s body.Another three kilograms of the drug, valued at TT$1.2M, were found concealed in a similar manner on his sister.They were also arrested and charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. The trio is scheduled to appear before a magistrate at the Arima Magistrate’s Court today.
Saturday’s exercise was headed by Senior Superintendent of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Force, Simon Alexis, and included ranks from the Customs and Excise Department on the island.Trinidadian officials have expressed concerns about the passengers being able to pass undetected through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.

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Guyana Police Force are anxiously waiting to examine the bodily contents of a female American to confirm that she did ingest cocaine in an attempt to

Drug agents from the Guyana Police Force are anxiously waiting to examine the bodily contents of a female American to confirm that she did ingest cocaine in an attempt to smuggle the drug to her home country.The 23-year old woman was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri on Tuesday while she was an outgoing passenger to New York.According to a senior police official, an x-ray showed a foreign substance which is suspected to be cocaine in the woman’s stomach.The American is at present a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she is being closely monitored.The official said that acting on information and the fact that the women fitted a particular profile, she was intercepted before she boarded the aircraft.The official told this newspaper that the woman disclosed that she had stayed at a Roxanne Burnham Gardens address after arriving in Guyana.Investigators are hopeful that the foreign object is excreted as soon as possible since if it is indeed cocaine and it ruptures in her body, it can cause significant health problems or even death for the woman.Several persons have been held at the main port of entry and exit after ingesting cocaine.However, some unlucky persons have died as a result of the cocaine packets rupturing in their stomachs.In one strange case, an American citizen jumped to his death while he was being monitored for ingesting the illegal drug at a city hospital.

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Cocaine seized Three Jamaican nationals intercepted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with cocaine valued at US 20,000

Two of the Jamaicans are in custody at the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) while the other was taken to a city hospital under police guard after officials suspected that he had swallowed some of the substance. Three Jamaican nationals were on Friday intercepted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with cocaine valued at US 20,000 dollars drug enforcement officials here have disclosed. Speaking to reporters here on Friday CANU prosecutor, Oswald Massaiah explained that around 6:30 Friday morning the three Jamaicans - one female and two males, who are in their late 20s - were outgoing passengers on a Caribbean Airlines flight CA424 destined for Jamaica via Barbados. Massaiah said officers at the airport profiled the female Jamaican and her suitcase was checked in her presence and a dart board was discovered. A preliminary check on the board revealed the substance which appeared to be cocaine. Following interrogation of that passenger, CANU officers subsequently proceeded to take the other two Jamaicans off the flight.
"Further investigations led us to an apartment at Fifth Street, Alberttown; officers recovered fibre glass, plywood, a round piece of wood resembling the bottom of a dart board, fabric used in dartboards, knives, a spatula, scissors and carbon which was also found in the lining of the board after they cut it open and found the cocaine," Massaiah disclosed. The Jamaicans, whose travel documents revealed that they had travelled to Guyana on April 15, had occupied the apartment.
Officials broke open the dart board in the presence of media operatives at CANU headquarters on Friday and removed the substance, which weighed just over two pounds. Asked whether the detection could have been made by sniffer dogs, the officer said yes and added that once the dogs were effective enough they would have been able to pick up the drug even though it was carefully concealed.
However, he pointed out that CANU did not own any such dogs, noting that the sniffer dogs that operate at the airport were owned by the Police Narcotics Branch.

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