Girl held in Guyana after cocaine present in biscuit packages

A 59-year-old lady has been arrested at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan Worldwide Airport after the authorities seized greater than 24 kilos of cocaine in a number of biscuit packages.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) mentioned the girl from Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara was as a consequence of board a flight for the USA when she was arrested. CANU brokers had turn out to be suspicious after noticing numerous biscuit packages in her carry-on baggage.

The packages had been searched and the medicine had been discovered. CANU mentioned all the substances within the packets examined optimistic for cocaine with a price of virtually GUY$12.3 million (One Guyana greenback=US$0.004 cents).

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In the meantime, a person who allegedly checked within the baggage for the girl has since been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle six finches (birds) in hair curlers.

CMC