Agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Wednesday afternoon intercepted two motorcars on the Rupert Craig Highway in the vicinity of the Kitty seawall, Georgetown, with a quantity of cocaine, guns and ammunition. As a result
Some of the items that were unearthed by CANU ranks
of the operations, three males were taken into custody.
They are Aundre Singh of Lot 779 Section B, Block X, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara; Clifford Gouveia of Lot 14 Little Abary, East Coast Demerara; and Oneil Charan, of Lot 47 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown.
Based on information received, Singh and Charan were in a white Premio motorcar bearing registration number PSS 8977 along the Rupert Craig Highway, while Gouveia was the driver of another motorcar with registration plates PLL 5213. At the time, a box was being transferred from one car to the other.
Ranks of CANU swopped down on the operation and intercepted the box which contained five suspected bricks of cocaine and beauty soaps. Upon weighing the suspected cocaine, it amounted to 5.582 kilograms.
However, the home of Singh was subsequently searched and a further 6.6 grams of suspected cocaine, along with US$5000 and GY$3 million were found.
In addition, one Taurus Revolver with matching ammunition and one Pistol with matching ammunition were discovered in another section of Singh’s house.
The three suspects are in custody and are expected to be arraigned with cocaine trafficking today.
suspected cocaine, it amounted to 5.582 kilograms.
