US DEA tipped off by Canada
A second major drug shipment is being traced back to Guyana after US federal agents on Wednesday seized 100 kilos of cocaine found inside pepper sauce cartons aboard a ship in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
A day after announcing one of the largest drug busts in Ontario’s history, Durham police working with the Canada Border Services Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) tipped off the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to the second shipment, which was stopped in St Croix.
Like in the first shipment, the drugs were hidden in cardboard dividers in 139 boxes of food-seasoning products that were destined for Caribbean International Food Distributors, based in Etobicoke.
The drugs were found after DEA agents raided the ship. Canadian law enforcement officials say more arrests are likely.
According to the Canadian press, the busts are part of a major anti-narcotics initiative dubbed “Project Falcon,” which sought to identify the sources of the criminal network that transported cocaine to street gang members and drug abusers in the Durham region.
On December 8, officers found 276 kilos of high-quality cocaine at the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, aboard a ship, Tropic Canada. With Wednesday’s net, the total amount of cocaine seized as a result of the investigation is 376 kilos, with an estimated street value of $54.5 million.
According to the Toronto Star, the drugs were traced back to Guyana, from where the padded freight containers shipped out. The Star reported investigators as saying that the vessel in New Brunswick was confirmed to have been carrying 77-79 per cent pure cocaine, which was found inside boxes of hot sauce. They removed all but two kilos of the cocaine and performed a controlled delivery of the container to its original destination in Etobicoke. It was received by the owner of the company, Mahendrapaul Doodnauth, who unloaded the boxes at a rented storage facility on Rexdale Boulevard in Toronto. As a result, Doodnauth, of Toronto, was charged with importing cocaine, conspiracy to import cocaine and possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
On Wednesday, acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene told Stabroek News that while the local authorities are yet to contact Canada, they had identified a local suspect in connection with the first bust. He said while no arrest has been made, the police are looking for the man. When asked how the cocaine-laden cartons of pepper sauce could have left these shores when checks had to be made, he directed this newspaper to the Customs Anti- Narcotics Unit (CANU), with whom the police are collaborating. CANU officials were unavailable for comment.
Reports were that the shipment left Guyana and arrived in the country on board the Tropic Canada in Saint John, New Brunswick on Decem-ber 8. The freighter reportedly regularly transports goods between Saint John and the Caribbean.
Stabroek News contacted the Light House, which has a record of all ships entering and leaving Port Georgetown, and was told that the Tropic Canada never entered these waters.
However, knowledgeable persons in the shipping industry say that the shipment could have left aboard another ship, probably a smaller vessel, and then transferred to the Tropic Canada via another Caribbean country. If Tropic Canada had entered this country the Light House would have had a record of it. Greene confirmed that the shipment left Guyana but would not say by what means.
The major interceptions in Canada and the USVI would be seen as a major embarrassment for Guyana amid international concerns that it was not doing enough to stem the drug trade.
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The major interceptions in Canada and the USVI would be seen as a major embarrassment for Guyana amid international concerns that it was not doing enough to stem the drug trade.
& guess what, NOTHING WILL EVER BE DONE UNDER THE CURRENT MADMINISTRATION. These activities prop-up the economy & some big boys get nice houses, cars, furniture etc as a result of these activities. Sorry RCMP, USVI, US & Canada. If you wnat any arrests you’ll have to make them YOURSELVES
Aint nobody can tell me that their families worked hard to ensure they have a good and comfortable life……SHARE COCAINE!! WHEN WILL THEY STOP THIS NONSENSE????
Didn’t I say it! Doodnauth will sing liken a canary. I guess he does not want to share the same fate as Roger Khan. It is therefore incumbent upon MR SINGH of CANU to now do some damage control or this will eventually make the GPF look really bad.
CANU, GPF and GDF already look bad.
These nuts also smell bad but willnever wash themselves and come clean.
As the drugs run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Keep it “LIT”
Perfect opportunity for the government to bring in mandatory death penalty for people making money out of trafficking cocaine.
An opportunity which will probably be missed however 376 kilos of coke with a street value of $54.5 million Canada dollars is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
There goes somebody ELSE’s Christmas bonus.
Wonder if our local authorities will make an arrest this time. Or maybe, speak to the people.
arrest who. be real people, the average man/women, street peddler/pusher did not ship this. Maybe one will take the fall for some gt$$$. It is the who of who in gy that’s doing this.
what`s in the Dark will come to light.my wish for the Investigators to capture ALL the “BIG ONES” involved. LET people work Hard for money,like us. sweat and stress out like ordinary people. thanks to a GOD, they will now punish,for their wrong doings.People MUST work hard for what the get.
This is yet another accomplishment for our president.After 7 months of what he claimed “making the anti narcotic unit clean” Two of the biggest drugs bust originating out of guyana.Mr Singh you are right don’t talk to stabroek news.Let Mr. President and Mr.Rohee do that press briefing after all they r the big bosses.
Can you imagine the president and his cohorts sending a choosing one to head anti narcotics unit on and did not give him the permission to address the media yet.The p.p.p./c government under this president failed guyana as a country.
What predident are you talking about bro, what accomplishment did he achieve?
you must be an active pnc card bearer. hence the cheapshots at the ppp. grow up.guyana has a serious drug problem just like the whole world. it is all supply and demand.just like the gas prices the world now lives with .
injin joe, i’m not a pnc cardholder i never had one, and don’t need one, and the president had nothing to do with the drug bust that took place in canada, and the usvi.
Hope CANU and Govt Officials get the message that they should shape up and stop this (new?) guyanese infestation from invading other lands from theirs.
No No….don’t blame the Colombians or Brazillians. Blame the greed, bribe culture and pus infested minds of Guyanese. How can individuals facilitate the export/import and spread of illegal drugs.
Let the overseas guyanese (’specially the yankee guyanese) explain to me that inside and outside of Guyana that the mentality is not the same, not only for drugs, but also greed, envy, back stabbing etc.
Pride, community, honesty and decency was lost on Guyanese since the 60’s. That was the Guyana that I knew. Children did not smoke or cuss. Now they are murdering, lying, stealing, raping etc etc. WOE is on the land which I was born and raised.
Yeh….explain to me the rights or logics of this new disease, a blind eye is turned on the old ones.
Cheers.
Well! don’t blame the Colombians?I would blame all of them I think the drugs come through Guyana, and the government know this. look at those big homes. not the not the ones finance by the banks. the people who all of a sudden get rich
the greed is with those people and gov. officials. I believe the country is being built on a drug economy some families struggle to build their homes,and the contractors steal their money by inflating the cost of material and sharing some of the money, with store owners. people forget that there is something call karma. The sin of those who do harm to others always comes back to them in other ways their children and grand children Make a new year change for the better Guyana
Well concerned Canadian.We as Guyanese wanted the American way of life.So we became all that’s American.American Democracy rules and is now spreading world wide like a cancer.It’s Global.
We now have almost everything America has in Guyana.
We have TV,Soap Operas,Home Invasions,Drive,TV Dinners,Fast Food.Drive by’s,Drugs,Disrespect.Child Abuse,Womens Rights,Guns in the streets.Soon to have
Sex Workers Rights,Men marrying men,Women marrying women,Gay Preachers,No Praying in School and All those USA Government
Agencies and we also have the US Government CORRUPTION.
More Love songs,Books and movies.NO LOVE and more Hate,Envy,
Greed,and XXX Rated/Porno Movies and Video Cameras.
WE have turned our backs on God,and God has started administrating Judgement on America,and all who follow their
life style and form of Democracy.
If I have left out anything It must be on purpose.
Thanks for your time Concerned Guyabnese/Canadan.
We no longer have to move to the USA to be like Americans.
Peace out.I am Guyanese born too.Keep an eye on America,and observe what is going on around the world.It’s “Cancer” is spreading “FAST”.IT’s Congress and Supreme Court are corrupted.
It was America who introduced the Drugs on the streets.Guns
were traded to Central America for Drugs.The purpose for the drugs was to be given to the poor blacks,so they wouldn’t get and education,become too smart and become part of Corporate
America work force and Government.The Elite Class.
But,it all back fired,their white kids started using the drugs too.
Who are the rich ones in Guyana? And how they became rich?
This a good question for the government. If regular people know the drug dealers, the government should know and put a stop to it. So people’s pockets are getting fatter.
To answer your questions, Carl & Royston: The “exports of cokumber (coke in lumber), cocish (coke in fish), cokersauce (coke in pepper sauce), cokereep (coke in casreep) & other by products of cocaine have all helped enrich the so-called rich Guyanese. We also ALL know who the major exporters of these products are & who they support as well as who support them, the Khans, the Budrams, the Doodnauths, etc. Now you “do the maths”
THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR GUYANA’S REPUTATION NOT TO THINK ON THE NEGATIVE EFFECT ON NON TRADITIONAL EXPORTS ITEMS.
THIS WEEK I AM A PAKI NOT GUYANESE
For you to say that. I am glad that you don’t want to be guyanese because you would be the definition of what, i hope a guyanese would never be (unpatriotic). For your information paki’s do worst things in this world than deal drugs but the other paki’s still have pride to be paki’s .It’s people like you that is the worst thing that can come out of guyana
this is not strange
i would like 2 know what comes out of this investigation and which canu officers were involved.
I wish they will speak up and start naming all those involve.
NOTHING I GUESS