Yesterday, between 16:10 and 17:00 hrs, a Police team led by a gazetted officer, Assistant Superintendent M.Singh, acting on intelligence received, went to the home of Debbie Atwell, a 56-year-old unemployed woman of Lot 86 BB Eccles, East Bank Demerara, where a search warrant was executed for narcotics.
Police searched the house and yard. While searches were conducted in the yard, Police ranks observed a black plastic bag containing a transparent plastic (ziplock) bag, which had a quantity of suspected cannabis, over the back concrete fence in the alleyway (next to some banana trees).
The suspected cannabis was thereafter retrieved and taken to the Providence Police Station, where it was weighed and amounted to 27 grams. Additionally, the suspected cannabis is being processed for fingerprints, the police said in a statement. Investigations are continuing.