Labourer busted with ganja at Eugene F Correira Int’l Airport
…ganja field, shotgun found in additional busts
A labourer who was attempting to smuggle a quantity of marijuana through the Eugene F. Correira Int’l Airport at Ogle, ECD on his way to Aurora in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) was on Wednesday busted by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit.
The ganja that was found in the labourer’s possession at the Eugene F Correira Int’l Airport
CANU, in a statement on Thursday, said the 23-year-old man, of Old Kara Kara in Mackenzie, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), was arrested with 84 grams of cannabis at the airport. He remains in custody pending charges.
Meanwhile, CANU ranks on Tuesday stumbled upon some 200 small cannabis plants growing in a field at St Cuthbert’s Mission District, a Mahaica riverine community, as they were on an eradication exercise in that community. That ganja field has since been destroyed, but no one was arrested.
And in another incident on Tuesday, CANU ranks conducting an operation in the East Ruimveldt, Georgetown area observed a man carrying a bulky salt bag. Upon seeing the CANU officers, the man dropped the bag and ran away. Subsequent search of the bag revealed a 12-gauge shotgun and five matching rounds of ammunition. An investigation has been launched.
