WCD woman caught with cocaine in religious items jailed

Lisa Ramnarine, who was arrested in 2022 for attempting to traffic cocaine, was jailed and fined on Monday in relation to the charge.

Ramnarine appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where she was found guilty of the offence of possession of 540 grams of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
She was sentenced to thirty-two months’ imprisonment and fined GY$810,000.
Ramnarine of Hague, West Coast Demerara (WCD), was arrested by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in June 2022 for attempting to ship cocaine hidden inside several religious items through DHL.
Reports are that on the day in question, CANU officers, acting on information received, went to the DHL headquarters, where they intercepted a parcel containing a Hindu havan kund, as well as 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.
It was reported that the sender’s information was retrieved from the package and led CANU ranks to Ramnarine.
CANU had said the cocaine had a street value of US$2500-US$2700 but would be worth more had it reached its intended destination.