TikToker facing drug trafficking charge further remanded

…as trial ongoing before City Magistrate

Twenty-three-year-old Lisa Ramnarine, who attempted to smuggle a quantity of cocaine through a DHL office was again remanded to prison as her trial is ongoing before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.

Ramnarine, a popular TikToker of Hague, West Coast Demerara (WCD), has pleaded not guilty to the charge which alleged that on June 7 at DHL’s Fifth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown office, she had 540 grams of cocaine in her possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Her trial continues on October 20. Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) arrested the young woman who attempted to ship the cocaine hidden in a Havan Kund.
Reports are that CANU officers, acting on information received, went to the DHL Headquarters and intercepted a parcel containing a Hindu Havan Kund and other religious items.
“The officers examined the items and discovered a hidden compartment within the Kund, which was suspected to contain narcotics. Further examinations determined that a substance suspected to be cocaine was concealed within the religious item,” CANU said.
It was reported that the sender’s information was retrieved from the package, and this led CANU ranks to Ramnarine, who was arrested and escorted to CANU Headquarters, where the item was dismantled in her presence and the illegal drug was revealed.
CANU had said the cocaine had a street value of between US$2500 and US$2700 but would have been worth more had it reached its intended destination.
In a separate case, in February 2021, one person was arrested after CANU ranks had unearthed 294 grams of cocaine concealed in a box at the DHL Alberttown, Georgetown location.
Acting on information received, the ranks conducted a search at the shipping business, during which they discovered a multi-coloured floral box.
Upon checking the box, the cocaine was found in a false wall at the bottom. During that same month, a Christianburg, Linden couple was arrested for attempting to ship cocaine concealed in fudge via DHL.
Shaka Nunes, a 36-year-old labourer, had pleaded guilty to a narcotic trafficking charge and had received a four-year sentence along with a fine of $1.7 million.
As such, the charge against his wife was subsequently withdrawn. It was reported that on February 15, 2021, Nunes had given his wife a box filled with several snacks and asked her to ship it to the United States of America (USA).
The DHL Georgetown branch summoned CANU about the suspicious package that had arrived from its Linden branch. This resulted in an inspection, and the field test conducted on the contents of the box revealed that the fudge contained 3.692 kilograms of cocaine.
As a result, CANU ranks visited the mailing address in Linden, where they met Nunes’s wife, who told them that her husband had given her the package to post.