A Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) surveillance operation yesterday led to the arrest of two persons who allegedly had in their possession two bricks of cocaine and a quantity of cannabis.
A release from the anti-drug agency last night stated that ranks on the operation arrested Daquan Wills, 25, of 141 Meadow Brook Drive, Meadow Brook Gardens, Georgetown, and Joel Fung-A-Fat, 39, of 342 Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown and of a US address after they sped away when ranks attempted to intercept their vehicle.
According to CANU, after the vehicle, a Nissan Juke bearing registration number PVV 6706 sped away, ranks immediately gave chase.
During the chase, the fleeing suspects allegedly threw a brick of suspected cocaine out the vehicle’s window in the vicinity of Lance Gibbs and Irving streets, Queenstown, which was later retrieved by the pursuing ranks. The ranks eventually caught up with the suspects and they were apprehended. A further search was conducted at a premises in Stone Avenue, Campbellville, Georgetown. During that search, ranks discovered another brick of cocaine and a bag containing bulk parcels of cannabis in the yard of an abandoned range house amongst some garbage.
The narcotics were retrieved and later weighed. The bricks of cocaine weighed a total of 2.102 kilogrammes while the cannabis weighed 17.956 kilogrammes.
The suspects are in custody assisting with further investigation.
