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Cops seize over $300M in cocaine, ammo from Enmore home

Aug 17, 2011 News

 

– couple, kids detained

A three-month investigation by the Police Narcotics Branch ended at around 13:00 hrs yesterday with ranks seizing over $300M from a business couple’s home at Enmore New Scheme, East Coast Demerara.
Police said that the cocaine, wrapped in taped parcels and weighing over 50 kilogrammes, was found in the false bottoms of several havan kunds (urns used in Hindu worship), which were to have been shipped to the United States.
A senior police official also said that ranks also found a large amount of ammunition while searching the property.
The official said that the family operates a taxi service on the East Coast of Demerara.
Kaieteur News understands that the couple has disclaimed knowledge of the cocaine and has implicated a friend.
The discovery comes at a time when several police ranks are being accused by some of their colleagues of having ties with key players in the narcotics trade.
At present, officials are investigating reports that three ranks from the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) collected $3M from a cocaine dealer and took a portion of the dealer’s drugs.
The ranks have been under close arrest since last week Thursday and were placed on an identification parade yesterday.
Sources said that the corporal and two constables were implicated after the alleged dealer secretly recorded them during the transaction.
Kaieteur News understands that the ranks had arrested the dealer with four kilogrammes of cocaine.
According to sources, the ranks collected $3M from the dealer, but then still confiscated three kilogrammes of the drug.
But unknown to them, the man they had arrested secretly recorded the deal. The information was reportedly relayed to senior police officials and the ranks were detained.
Kaieteur News understands that one of the ranks pleaded for a chance to return his portion of the money following his arrest.

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