A 24-year-old Guyanese man was held at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday morning after three kilogrammes of cocaine was discovered under a fibre-glass panel in his suitcase.
According to reports, the man was travelling to Barbados when he was intercepted by CANU officials who searched his suitcase.

A section of the man’s suitcase, which was partitioned by fibre-glass, a Capitol News report said, and beneath the fibre-glass covering the stated amount of illegal substance was discovered.

Further, the news report said that the man’s movements were being monitored by the law enforcement officials for some time. He is in custody.




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  1. SandHurst First GUYANA says:

    Lack he up and throw away the keys, start giving the mules life in prison and i bet no other “donkey” will wanna carry other people’s drugs.

    • LINDENBANNA UNITED STATES says:

      This mule was fingered by a tout,,,,they just did not catch him like that,,,,someone snitched him out, probably a rival mule, and buttening them down will not stop the flow of traffic, look at Columbia in the 1990’s same thing. What is needed is proper detection equipment in cooperation with drug sniffing dogs and publicity of this operation on the media as a deterrent .

  2. SurMot NETHERLANDS says:

    Guyanese like “this man”, is portraying negativity to the Guyanese populace, causing decent and hard working Guyanese to be harassed and deported from CARICOM member states, especially from Barbados and Trinidad. He should be a lost soul in the Brickdam lock-up or be faced with some “touching-up” while in police custody.

    • LINDENBANNA UNITED STATES says:

      Shame on you SurMot, “touching up”,,, that amounts to torture. For each mule that is pinched, there are 4 more that fly, and some mules are used as decoys,,,,they are promised good legal representation, and their families are well taken care of.

  3. dove UNITED STATES says:

    they just never learn. Same thing ova and ova again. Good job to the immigration officers who caught them.

    • talkout UNITED STATES says:

      YOU THINK THAT THEY DID CAUGHT HIM BASE ON KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE I DON’T THINK SO SOMEBODY TIP THEM OFF SO PRAISE THAT PERSON

    • LINDENBANNA UNITED STATES says:

      dove, sorry to disappoint yu,,, he was bait,,,, this drug cartel is far more sophisticated than the people working at the Airport, LOL… we are dealing with a (CCE) CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, this is a billion dollar operation, and no Immigration Officers are going to stop this,,,just ask the Columbians.

  4. angelpetals GUYANA says:

    put him away for life these and other mules who don;t think b4 they act only snuffing out the lives of the innocent with their greed for money not caring in whoes hands the cocaine ends up or who suffers because of their stupidity.

    • Empress Menen JAMAICA says:

      Are you sure you want a life sentence for this????

    • LINDENBANNA UNITED STATES says:

      This problem is far bigger than what you imagine,,,there are people in this life who will take a 5-10 yr in exchange for $50 Million and a good life for their family, what else they got to lose,,,I used to see them everyday, where their family would put big money in their commissary accounts, they run their businesses from behind bars and they receive visits come rain or shine every visiting day,from every baby momma, and some of them have conjugal visits, so life is good and they stay active and exercise and eat well and come out to live rich.

  5. THE BEST FRANCE says:

    their not donning jail him

  6. Mackydog UNITED STATES says:

    Another idiot caught. Nice work CANU.

  7. love_gt BARBADOS says:

    jail him for a very long long time.

  8. Incognegro UNITED STATES says:

    Nothing new, good work….

    but how many othes got thru cah he he aint he dues?

  9. bess UNITED STATES says:

    TRYING TIMES, BUT THIS WAS ONE TIME TOO MANY

  10. ALL_GT UNITED STATES says:

    Ok, his movements were being monitored for sometime, then why the person that sold him the drugs was not arrested? Mr. Commish is your fishing hook attached to thread thus preventing you from hauling in the big fishes?

    • Theo UNITED STATES says:

      excellent point! This was a wasted opportunity for a collaborative effort to arrest the big fish in GT and with the help of Bajan authorities, the receivers in Barbados. Once again no synergy in tactics, only photo-ops and bragging rights opportunism.

      What are the education requirments for recruits of the police force anyway?

    • LINDENBANNA UNITED STATES says:

      Those threads that are attached, are actually strings that he pulls when ever he needs a “FRECK”



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