CANU on Thursday held two men at the CJIA, Timehri with a large amount of cocaine which was intended to be loaded on a British Airways flight.
One of the men was employed with a ground handling service and the other worked with a security contractor for airlines.
The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday said that on Thursday its officers attached to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, while performing duties at the baggage shed area intercepted two males, who were observed retrieving four duffle bags over the CJIA’s fence from an unknown male.
A search of the duffle bags led to the discovery of 64 brick-like parcels suspected to be cocaine. Travis Sealey, age 26, a shift leader attached to the New Timehri Handling Service (NTHS) and Koby Bakker, age 20, a ground security coordinator attached to Secure Inno-vations and Concept (SIC), both of Timehri, along with the suspected narcotic were escorted to CANU’s headquarters, where the suspected narcotic tested positive for cocaine and weighed 71.2 kg, which has an estimated street value of GY$64,000,000.
CANU said that the narcotic was intended to be loaded on a British Airways Flight bound for St. Lucia (UVF), with onwards connection to the United Kingdom. If the narcotic had reached its intended destination, the estimated street value would have been over £3,000,000 which is equivalent to approximately $679m.
