A 22-year-old man has been arrested after over 100 grammes of cocaine, marijuana and a quantity of ecstasy tablets were found at a Princes Street house yesterday afternoon, when members of the Custom Anti-Narcotics Unit carried out a raid there.
CANU ranks also found some $170,000 in counterfeit currency as well as a large quantity of genuine cash.
Among the items found at the Princes Street home were three parcels of ganja totalling over 100 grammes, a similar amount of cocaine, over 100 ecstasy tablets and a quantity of counterfeit and genuine cash. The lawmen also found a number of toothpaste tubes with the bottoms cut off. A CANU rank said drug smugglers would usually cut the tubes and stuff cocaine in them before closing them up back. The rank said CANU had intercepted persons already who had tried to traffic in cocaine in that manner.
According to CANU the man now in custody said he was from Berbice, but had been staying at Princes Street for some time now. The CANU ranks also found two others sets of tablets, but the man said he had collected those during the 2005 flood.
“We are not finished yet there are still some other persons who we would have to get at so our investigations would be ongoing,” the CANU official said. Yesterday’s raid was one of largest the agency has made for the year so far.
