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NY-based Guyanese nabbed with 10 kilos of coke at CJIA
…this time drug hidden in baking powder
Drug mules have always found innovative ways in trying to smuggle prohibited substances out of the country. And, as they say, old habits die hard.
Yesterday ranks at the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) stationed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri, unearthed some 10kg of cocaine concealed in packets of baking powder that were in the luggage of a New York-based Guyanese.
The woman, whose name was given as Asante D’Aguiar, was at the time attempting to board a flight back to her adopted homeland when she was nabbed.
According to sources, CANU ranks were acting on information when they nabbed the woman as she was attempting to smuggle the drugs out of the country. They noted that the suspect was acting in a suspicious manner. A search was conducted and the drugs were found neatly packed in her suitcases in baking powder packets.
The woman is in police custody assisting with investigations.
The estimated street value of the cocaine is around $10M.
Only recently four persons were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital under the suspicion that they had swallowed cocaine pellets. The persons, three men and a woman, were at the time attempting to board a flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, when they were arrested by CANU officials.
X-rays found that they had not ingested any drug.
One of the suspects, on being released from the hospital, was shot at as he was going to his Oleander Gardens home.
The man told officers that he recognised the shooter, who he said was dread-locked. Police officials believe that the shooting may have stemmed from a drug deal gone sour.
Earlier this month Jamaican national Richard Gayle was caught as he was attempting to board a flight to Trinidad and Tobago.
He was taken into custody where he excreted over 60 packets of cocaine.
A few weeks ago another Jamaican national, Errol Barrett, spent three days at the GPHC before finally excreting the pellets containing the illicit substance. None of the pellets containing the drug ruptured in his stomach.
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