Barbados-bound passenger busted with $7M worth ganja

Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday intercepted an outgoing passenger at the Eugene F Correia International Airport, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, with over $7 million in marijuana.
The suspect, 45-year-old Elvis Fitzgerald Theusday of Lot 86 Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, was an out-bound passenger travelling to Barbados.
CANU said its ranks at the Ogle Airport conducted a search on the passenger and his luggage, during which 23 parcels of suspected cannabis were discovered.
The man was arrested and escorted to CANU’s Headquarters with the suspected narcotic, which was later confirmed to be poppy weed carrying a total weight of 18.370 kg (40.498 pounds).
The narcotic amounted to a street value of over $7 million, CANU said.
Investigations are ongoing.
Only last month, CANU ranks busted another passenger who attempted to smuggle ganja out of the country, at the Eugene F Correia International Airport.
While on duty, the ranks conducted a search on a passenger and his luggage, which resulted in the discovery of 56.3 grams of cannabis concealed in two Pringles tins.
They subsequently arrested the suspect, Jamal Millington, 24, of Amelia’s Ward, Linden, who was later charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
During his arraignment at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool, the accused drug trafficker was granted $300,000 bail and ordered to lodge his passport with the court pending the hearing and determination of his trial.
That case will continue on April 4.