A miner is now in Police custody after being caught with illegal drugs at the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling on the West Coast of Demerara (WCD).
According to Police reports, at about 20:30h on Tuesday, ranks of Regional Division Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), acting on information received, arrested the 31-year-old miner, a resident of Tuschen New Scheme, EBE. At the time of his arrest, the miner had in his possession 38.5 grams of suspected cocaine and 13.8 grams of marijuana.
It has been reported that the man was approached by one of the ranks at the stelling, who identified himself as a Policeman and requested a search of the man’s person, to which he consented. During the search, the rank discovered a black plastic bag in the miner’s right-side pants pocket, and that bag contained three separate, white, transparent plastic bags with a whitish, rock-like substance suspected to be cocaine. Questioned about the find, the man told the ranks, “I just buy this thing from town fuh black girl”.
