At about 20:45 hrs on Friday, an Officer and a party of Police ranks were on mobile patrol duty in the vicinity of Beterverwagting Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara when they arrested a 28-year-old unemployed man for possession of 64.9 grams of cannabis.
The police said in a release that ranks observed the 28-year-old resident of Beterverwagting, standing on a wooden bridge acting in a suspicious manner. They carried out a search on his person and on a mailbox next to him and found one transparent plastic bag which contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.