Ganja worth US$80,000 unearthed on Essequibo Coast
…“We are coming where you feel comfortable” – CANU Head to drug dealers
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks swooped down on a house at Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) and seized more than 189 pounds of ‘Creepie weed’ besides arresting four persons.
Reports are that at around noon yesterday, CANU ranks went to a house at 221 Clarke Street, Dartmouth and conducted a search of the premises, resulting in the ranks unearthing the cannabis in several suitcases in a room. The narcotics were already packaged into 79 parcels, which when later weighed amounted to some 85.804 kilograms.
The more-than-150 pounds of marijuana which was unearthed by CANU
This newspaper was told that the estimated street value of the drugs is US$80,000. The occupants and other persons connected to that house were arrested, and are in custody pending investigations.
According to the anti-drug enforcement agency, the narcotics is believed to be commercial ‘Creepie weed’ that was trafficked from neighbouring Venezuela.
Head of CANU, James Singh, has said this seizure comes at a time when CANU has been further widening its grasp across the country, more particularly in Berbice, Essequibo and other key locations.
Singh posited that the Unit’s key aim is to disrupt smuggling routes. “CANU is extending its operations across the country – Berbice, Essequibo – the aim is to disrupt the routes and to also deter persons. We are not waiting at the airports or wharves, we are coming where you feel comfortable; we are not going to allow any community to become contaminated, we are working closer with the community policing groups and other agencies. We want to continue to build public confidence and trust,” the CANU Head has said.
