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Four suspected drug mules nabbed, subsequently released

Mar 12, 2009 News

Four persons are under police guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital under the suspicion that they may have swallowed cocaine pellets.
The persons, three men and a woman, were brought into the hospital by police ranks after they were detained as they were attempting to board a flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
After being transported to the city, the four persons underwent an x-ray at the public hospital.
However, the scan failed to reveal any foreign objects in their stomachs, but police officials, not wanting to take any chances, kept the four suspects at the hospital for observation.
The four were released yesterday after the medical authorities concluded that they had nothing in their systems.
Jamaican national Richard Gayle was caught earlier in the month as he was attempting to board a flight to Trinidad and Tobago.
He was taken into custody and excreted over 60 packets of cocaine. Gayle was taken into custody at around 05:00 hours on the aforementioned day by the Police Narcotics Unit, under the suspicion that he had swallowed pellets containing cocaine for the intent of trafficking.
He was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where x-rays of his abdomen showed several foreign objects in his stomach.
He had arrived in Guyana on February 26, when he was searched by the Customs and Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU).
Their initial search uncovered no drugs on his person, but Gayle was later detained by the Police Narcotics Unit.
A few weeks ago another Jamaican national, Errol Barrett, spent three days at the GPHC before finally excreting pellets containing the illicit substance.
Over the last few years, several drug mules have died when the pellets containing the drugs they were trafficking burst while still inside of them.

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