Parika man busted with over 6kg of cocaine in curry at CJIA

Thirty-six-year-old Loaknauth Persaud of Parika Backdam, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was on Friday arrested at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport while attempting to smuggle to America more than six kilograms of cocaine in curry.
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in a release has said that Persaud was an outgoing passenger on a Jet Blue Airways flight destined for the JFK International Airport in the USA when a white substance suspected to be cocaine was found in two bowls of curry during a search of his suitcase.
Persaud was arrested and, with the suspected illegal substance, escorted to CANU Headquarters, where the substance was subsequently tested and confirmed to be cocaine. It was weighed in his presence and amounted to 6.28kgs, which has a street value of approximately US$31,000.00 (Gy$6.3M).
Further investigations into this matter have led to the arrest of Manzil Ali, also called John Ali, a 43-year-old resident of Section C, “D” Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown.
Back in April, a 25-year-old woman of Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown and of Jamaica, Queens, New York was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) with a quantity of cocaine stashed away in her hand luggage.

This suspect was also an outgoing passenger on a Jet Blue flight, B6-2166. It was reported that a Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer at the CJIA had conducted a search on this suspect’s luggage and had discovered the cocaine concealed in the walls of her laptop bag inside her hand luggage.
She was escorted to CANU Headquarters in Georgetown for further questioning, and remains in custody there.