Acting on information received, Police ranks showed up at a location in Enterprise, East Coast Demerara at about 03:15h on Monday, and found a 59-year-old unemployed male, who has no fixed place of abode, sitting under a makeshift shed.
The cocaine was weighed and amounted to 4.2 grams
They conducted a search on his person, and unearthed in his pants waist a vial with several small, transparent plastic bags which each contained a ‘rock-like, creamish substance suspected to be cocaine.
He was told of the offence committed, cautioned, arrested, and escorted to the Vigilance Police Station along with the suspected narcotic, which was weighed and amounted to 4.2 grams.
The suspected narcotic has been lodged at the station, and the man has been placed in custody and is slated to be charged. (G12)
