Police find ganja in Eccles raid

Police on Tuesday acting on intelligence, raided the home of a 56-year-old unemployed woman of BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
The operation, conducted between 16:10h and 17:00h, by a police team, led an assistant superintendent, was carried out under a search warrant for narcotics.
During the search of the house and yard, police officers noticed a black plastic bag containing a transparent ziplock bag over the back concrete fence in an alleyway near some banana trees. Inside the bag was a quantity of suspected cannabis.
The suspected narcotics were retrieved and taken to the Providence Police Station, where they were weighed and found to amount to 27 grams of cannabis. In a statement, police said that they have since begun fingerprint analysis on the bag.
Investigations are continuing.