The cultivated cannbis field with one of the tents visible
Police ranks in Essequibo and Berbice have arrested five suspects in two separate drug eradication exercises on Wednesday.
In Berbice, two men were busted with a quarter kilogram of cannabis, which they tried to discard after being caught smoking a ‘joint’.
According to a Police source, Rashawn Brush, 25, and Denesh Balwant, 21, both of Rose Hall Town registered on the Police’s radar when officers from the anti-crime patrol were proceeding along the Number 7 Village Public Road, East Coast Berbice.
It is being alleged that the suspects were seen smoking and when the Officers pulled up, they threw a bag into a clump of bushes which was retrieved by the Officers. The bag contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems.
Both men were taken into custody and the drug was weighed; it amounted to 225 grams. The men have since been charged and are expected to appear in court today.
Meanwhile, in Essequibo, during a 12-hour drug eradication exercise at Araray Village, Upper Essequibo, ranks stumbled upon several acres of marijuana.
A Police release detailed that “in excess of nine acres of cultivated cannabis with about 8000 plants ranging in heights from one foot to 10 feet, several nurseries with over 3000 seedlings and two makeshift tents were found and destroyed.”
Further reports revealed that three males, who were found tending to the plants, were taken into custody and charged with cultivating prohibited plants. They too will make a court appearance today.
