Taxi driver busted with cocaine, ganja, ‘pills’

A taxi driver was busted with a quantity of cocaine and marijuana along with pills suspected to be Methamphetamine among other substances at Port Kaituma, Region One (Barima-Waini).
Reports are that on Tuesday between 18:50h and 20:30h, a party of Police ranks conducted an intelligence-led operation on the Port Kaituma residence of a 47-year-old taxi driver, who is also from Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Police said that on arrival, the taxi driver was seen at the front of the house and agreed when for a search to be conducted on his house in his presence. During the search, the ranks unearthed a brown cardboard box containing a black plastic bag. Inside the bag were two transparent plastic bags containing a whitish, brick-like substance suspected to be cocaine, a quantity of cash, and several ziplock bags containing a quantity of blue pills, pink pills, and green pills.
Police on Wednesday said that a further search of the box unearthed a quantity of “pinkish-reddish pills” and transparent ziplock bags containing whitish crystals.
Further checks were made inside the building and the ranks found a white plate containing a quantity of creamish, rock-like substance suspected to be cocaine, as well as a yellow plate containing leaves, seeds, and stems suspected to be cannabis.
The man was arrested, and at the Port Kaituma Police Station, the suspected cocaine was weighed and amounted to 239.6 grams; suspected cannabis, 4.4 grams; the 139 Methamphetamine pills found amounted to 115.9 grams and the 29 ziplock bags uncovered which contained the creamish crystal substance weighed some 63.5 grams.
In addition, Police said four cellular phones, a TIN Certificate, driver’s licence, a national identification card, and a hire car licence and $42,790 were found in a black hand bag in the house.
The taxi driver is in custody pending charges.