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Cocaine found in ochro shipment at CJIA

Aug 13, 2013 News

 

 

A Campbellville man is assisting Police anti-narcotics ranks with their investigation into the discovery of a so far undisclosed amount of cocaine in a shipment of ochroes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
The drug was unearthed around 15:00 hours, during a routine search of the cargo which was destined for the United States of America via the charter service, Amerijet.
Reports are that police ranks at the airport, observed the shipper acting in a suspicious manner and decided to check the cargo.
According to a source, the ranks painstakingly cut open several ochroes and stumbled upon some of the drugs which were neatly packed in one of the vegetables.
This encouraged them to continue cutting open the hundreds of ochroes and sure enough more cocaine was discovered.
“There were a few in every box and there were about 100 boxes,” a police source told Kaieteur News.
The shipper who was there witnessing the tedious process, was promptly arrested. He claimed that it was the first time he was making such a shipment.
Yesterday’s discovery comes less than two weeks after a bag containing more than 20 pounds of cocaine was discovered at the airport.
Cocaine in ochro is another ingenious way that Guyanese have been using to traffic the South American-produced drug to North America and other destinations such as Europe and Asia.
Cocaine has been discovered in other vegetables, pepper sauce, polourie, ornaments and even lumber for export.

 

 

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