Latest update February 21st, 2025 6:25 AM
Latest News
- Jagdeo lauds Suriname for allowing citizens to invest in first oil project
- `Completion of Wales gas plants further delayed to 2026
- Woman throws away purse instead of giving to bandits
- ExxonMobil proposes new pipeline to transport gas to Berbice
- Jagdeo slams shoddy management of public works projects
‘We ain’t doing no crime’
– Weed sellers tell cops
Kaieteur News – Two persons busted by police on Wednesday with weed and cocaine at their home in Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD), reportedly admitted to selling the drugs, but maintain that they are not committing any crime.
The suspects were identified as domestic worker, Bibi Zamoon Zamal, 59, and 33-year-old Travis Gilbert, a taxi driver.
(From left) – In police custody for selling weed and coke, Travis Gilbert, detained for selling narcotics, Bibi Zamoon Zamal
The weed and coke found in the suspect’s Pouderoyen home.
According to police, ranks searched their home at Swan Street, Squatting Area, Pouderoyen, around 05:00hrs, after receiving information that illegal activities might be taking place there.
During the search, the cops observed that there was a black string tied to a floor board in the kitchen area, leading to a beam underneath the house.
“The ranks pulled up the said string” stated police, and reportedly found “two bulky transparent plastic bags attached to the end. One of the bags contained a quantity of whitish rocklike substance suspected to be cocaine, and the other had several brown paper parcels containing cannabis (weed/ganja/marijuana).
Ranks cautioned them both that they will be arrested for having the illegal drugs in their possession, and according to police, Zamal the domestic worker replied, ”I selling da cocaine and weed because I sickly and I can’t work”, while Gilbert the taxi driver added “We hussling and don’t do crime”.
This led to the ranks taking possession of some $14,000, Gilbert had in his pants pocket and an additional $589,000 found in a brown hand bag on Zamal’s bed.
They were taken to the Vreed-en-Hoop police Station and placed in the lock-ups pending charges. Investigators weighed the drugs confiscated and they amounted to two grams of marijuana and 73 grams of cocaine.
Investigations are ongoing.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
A flawed interpretation of international law
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News – The assertion that “under international law, Venezuela is responsible for... more
CARICOM Nations Should Respond Together To new U.S. Policies
By Sir Ronald Sanders Ambassador to the US and the OAS, Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News-Two Executive Orders issued by U.S.... more
Weekend Cartoon
