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Man with cocaine found sleeping in neighbour’s hammock

Apr 11, 2011 News

Members of the Anna Catherina Community Policing Group (CPG) seem to be working around the clock to ensure that their village is kept safe.
It is this diligence that helped them to apprehend a suspected drug peddler who was found fast asleep in a stranger’s hammock yesterday .
Kaieteur News was told that early yesterday morning a security guard was returning home after duty when he realised that someone was lying in the hammock outside  his house.
At first he was alarmed, because only his wife was at home.
However, when he noticed that the man inside his hammock was fast asleep, he quickly rushed to notify members of the CPG.
When the members arrived at the scene, they had to wake up the man, who was identified as a villager.
Persons were under the impression that the intruder entered the premises with the intention of committing robbery at the house but because he was “high” he fell asleep before he could execute his plan.
Reports are that the man, known as “Budha,” had a long dagger in his possession and this resulted in the CPG members conducting a search on his person, where a quantity of narcotics was found wrapped in a plastic bag and secured in the man’s underwear.
The suspect was then taken to the Leonora Police Station where the substance was tested and confirmed to be 30 grams of cocaine. However, the man claimed that he found the drugs.
This newspaper understands that “Budha” lives in the same street of the family whose hammock he fell asleep in and when questioned as to what he was doing in the hammock, he told police ranks that he “wanted to sleep” so he ventured into the hammock to rest in comfort.
According to a source, in the past police have suspected “Budha” to be a trafficker of narcotics but he was never found with the substance in his possession until this occasion.
He revealed that he “jumped the fence and went into the yard of the security guard where he located the hammock and went to sleep”.
“Budha” is currently in the lock-ups where he is awaiting further action to be taken by members of the police force.

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