Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers yesterday conducted an operation at a premises located on Shantinikhetan Street, Prashad Nagar, Georgetown and arrested three persons including a woman who had been busted at the same address in March last year.
CANU in a statement said that a search of the house was conducted in the presence of the three persons who were present at the time which led to the discovery of a brick-like parcel suspected to be cocaine.
Lena Narine, 63 years, of the said address and owner of the premises, along with Sherman Edmonson, 54 years also of the said address, and Earl Branch, 49 years of Pike Street, Kitty, were arrested and escorted to CANU’s Headquarters with the suspected narcotic. The narcotic tested positive for cocaine, amounting to 1.050 kg, with a street value of approximately $1.1 Million.
Narine, was previously arrested along with two other persons in March 2022, when CANU officers discovered 11.4 kgs of cocaine and 266g ecstasy at this same address.
Investigations are ongoing.
