The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday found five grammes of cocaine in a mail returned from the USA.

An officer told Stabroek News that employees at the Guyana Post Office Corporation were examining the mail when they made the discovery. He said that the cocaine was found in a small, plastic bag in a greeting card. The mail had been sent to a Brooklyn address.
It is believed that the address it was sent to was wrong.

The officer said too that the name of the sender is apparently fictitious as checks at the given address found no such person. Officers are continuing their surveillance of the city address.

The cocaine is worth about $4,000 here but the officer said in the US it would be worth much more. He also pointed out that persons would usually send up to 30 grammes of cocaine in mails.