Coast Guard recovers 99.5 Kg ganja dumped overboard during river pursuit
Members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guards who were on patrol duty aboard the Metal Shark vessel in the Demerara River have retrieved some 99.54 kilograms of cannabis that had been dumped from a wooden boat.
The police have said that Coast Guard ranks on Thursday observed two or three occupants on board a red-and-black wooden boat that was propelled by a 15HP outboard engine in the Demerara River. However, upon seeing the Coast Guards, the occupants began to throw several bulky parcels overboard, even as this boat proceeded into the channel near the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling area.
The boat from which the cannabis was dumped
The Coast Guard vessel then travelled to the area where the occupants were discarding the parcels and found six bulky salt bags floating in the river. Upon inspection, each bag contained numerous smaller packages wrapped in transparent plastic and containing cannabis.
The ganja that was retrieved from the river
The Coast Guards retrieved these items and returned to their headquarters. They then acquired a smaller boat and went back to the channel near Vreed-en-Hoop, where they located the boat and engine, now abandoned, and transported same to the Coast Guard Headquarters at Ruimveldt in Georgetown.
The cannabis was weighed and amounted to 99.54 kilograms. Nobody has as yet been arrested.
