An elderly woman has been arrested by the police after being found in possession of narcotics.
According to a release from the Guyana Police Force Corporate Communications Unit, on Friday at about 2.30 am, acting on information received, police ranks visited the home of the Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara woman, where a search of the premises was requested and granted. During the search which was carried out in her presence, a bulky transparent plastic bag containing several small bulky silver foil wraps and several small white bulky paper parcels on a counter in her kitchen was discovered.
They were opened in her presence and a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems were seen in each of the white paper parcels which were suspected to be cannabis while a hard whitish rocklike substance was seen in each of the silver foil wraps suspected to be cocaine.
The woman was told of the offence committed and under caution stated, ‘I selling da cocaine and weed fo mine me sickly husband.” She was subsequently arrested and escorted to the Leonora Police Station along with the suspected narcotics. The suspected cocaine was weighed and it amounted to 10.3 grams, while the suspected cannabis amounted to 28.6 grams.
The suspect was then placed into custody pending further investigation.
