Yesterday between 15:30 to 16:30 hrs, acting on information received from the Special Branch Department, detectives from Regional Divisions #3 and 4A conducted a cordon-and-search exercise at the dwelling house of Sylvester Gonsalves, a 34-year-old construction worker of Lot 4455 Westminster, WBD.
The ranks identified themselves to be policemen dressed in plain clothing from the Leonora Police Station and Albertown Police Station, after which they conducted a search of the premises in the presence of Gonsalves. During the search, the police said that they found a bulky white salt bag with four parcels in the bathroom of the lower flat of the building that Gonsalves occupies.
The parcels were opened and inside was a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.
Gonsalves was arrested and escorted to the Parfaite Harmonie Police Station and then to Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station, where the parcels of narcotics were weighed and amounted to 8 kg.