Law enforcement authorities are searching for a number of other persons in relation to the recent Cdn$40 million drug bust in Canada including the brother of the Guyanese man held in Ontario.
Reginald Rodrigues
Sources say that the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) and the police are searching for Indarpaul Doodnauth, the brother of Mahendrapaul Doodnauth who was held and charged in Canada last week. Indarpaul is said to be the operator of a business on the East Coast.
The authorities are also said to be searching for Orlando Watson of Annandale West who is alleged to be the shipper of the second set of cocaine-filled cartons with pepper sauce intercepted in St Croix, USVI. Watson is also alleged to have been involved in the preparation of the shipments.
The two are being sought in addition to local exporter Reginald Rodrigues who has reportedly fled to Suriname. In the bulletin on Monday the police said Rodrigues was wanted in connection with the seizure of 276 kilos of cocaine in Canada. The bulletin came five days after acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene had told Stabroek News that a local suspect had been identified and investigators were looking for him. Rodrigues is said to be 55 and his last known address was given as Lot 141 Victoria Street, Albouystown. He is 5’11” tall and has brown eyes, black hair and is slimly built.
Rodrigues was reportedly busted in Miami, Florida, ten years ago when he had gone to uplift a shipment, which was being sent to someone in New York.
After the bust, Rodrigues was sent to New York where he and a co-accused were charged. Rodrigues was subsequently sentenced to five years in prison and after serving the time he was deported. He reportedly operated an export business. The website www.reycleinme.com lists him as the contact person for Rodrigues Tropical Export Co Limited, located at Lot 141 Victoria Street, Albouystown.
Indarpaul Doodnauth
Sources close to the local investigation say that a number of deportees and other with suspected criminal antecedents were involved in the pepper cocaine smuggling operation. They had all invested various amounts in the purchasing and packaging of the cocaine with the hope of making a super profit once the pepper sauce cartons made it into Canada during the busy holiday season.
Rodrigues is believed to have taken possession of the cartons with the cocaine already secreted within the dividers.
There had been ongoing co-operation between local enforcement authorities and those in Canada and the US in this operation. The sources say that the moment the first bust was announced in Canada an attempt was made to arrest Rodrigues but he had already suspected that something was amiss and had gone underground. A location on Camp Street was also searched but he was not found.
On December 8, officers found 276 kilos of high-quality cocaine at the Port of Saint John, New Brunswick, aboard the ship, Tropic Canada. It regularly transports goods between St John and the Caribbean.
Orlando Watson
According to the Toronto Star newspaper, the drugs were traced back to Guyana, from where the padded freight containers were 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. There is no record at the Lighthouse of the ship entering Guyana’s waters.
On December 24, 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 US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) about the second shipment, which was stopped in St Croix, USVI.
According to the Star, the drugs, with an estimated valued of US$14.5 million, were hidden in cardboard dividers in 139 boxes of food seasoning products also destined for Doodnauth’s business in Etobicoke.
Well what do you think, as long as the drugs were seized do you expect the men to stick around? Of course they would’ve gone into hiding, now it’s going to take good police work to capture them. If guyana can’t get them i guess the surinamese will, mark my word.
Nothing changes my opinion,,,,these men are just “FOOT SOLDIERS”,,, the drug cartel will take care of their families, and pay for their legal representation, and we will watch to see who the Attorneys are, IF they are ever caught and brought before the courts. We will also monitor their families’ fortune to see WHO, WHEN and HOW their legal expenses are being paid.
you have to go to the other SA countries to find that out.
guyanese operate by cash figure it out.
More buisness for our two most prominent lawyers in Guyana, who’s been representing all the questionable figures in Guyana’s drug trde.
Wowie kazowie!!!!!!!!!
Look at the legal Guyanese Businessmen!!!!!
Happy New Year to all.
Keep it LIT”
i have said it before all the crimes committed in guyana are deportees, career criminals graduated at the top of their class.
These [criminals] people photos[reason for deportation] must be constantly publish in the papers so they can be monitor by the local.
freespeech, a hand carried file accompanies each deportee, which contains all the imformation available on the individual while in the deporting country, the problem is these files are supposed to be “HAND CARRIED” by the receiving Immigration officer and turned over to the CID in Guyana to be placed in a CENTRAL CRIMINAL FILE, where they are supposed to be MONITORED for a period of time. Is this ever done,,,,,NO, some of the files NEVER make Georgetown because the deportee or family, associates, pay bribes to Immigration officers at the Airport and other places for these files.
Monitor them for what, if they haven’t committed any crimes in Guyana what is your point. These people (deportees) did their time where the crime was committed. At the point of return to Guyana innocent people and should be treate as such. Remember, fineman and this crew, know one was monitoring them (not deportees). Being deported to Guyana is serious punishment for anyone who is accustom to living abroad for a while. In addition to scorn of being deported in Guyana.
CARL,,,in the same way that a “BACKGROUND” clarance is required for you to come to America, even though you had never committed a crime in America, and I see you complied without question, the mere proof that you are here. Have a Happy New Year, all the best for the 09.
True that bro
I see there was another bust in Miami containing a Guyana shipment.
http://www.nbc6.net/news/18383738/detail.html
Three busts in one week, Is the head of CANU still not taking questions?
Nice, I wonder WHO was responsible for this furniture. Quite a few of these operations, if not ALL belong to “supporters”
Those are the ones that were busted there are a whole lot out there I really do not know who will outlast who but there will be a lot of dead bodies when the guns go silent.
hahahahahahahha, oh boy…..my father worked had before he died and never once did he see,touch,sell or distribute COCAINE to get rich quick….so when people bragging about how their parents worked like slaves and they building some big big mansions…just remember that white lady helped then…..hahahahahha……GET THEM MAN, THEY TOO DUTTY!!!
don’t go we need u here, happy new year to you, i hope you continue blogging here with us.
the local authorities are too corrupt to deal with the drug problem,that is why it wouldn’t take too long before the DEA sets up office there in guyana.
i dont think so, guyana is too corrupt, the dea dont trust the govt of guyana, the reason they are grabbing the drug dealers outside of guyana.
OMG!!! More embattled Guyanese businessmen. What do the USA & Canada wish upon our drug economy? Just like RK, he could NOT be touched in Guyana so Winston Felix, being an honourable COP made sure loyal policemen (yes there are loyal policemen among the multitude of foolice)beat the bushes & ran him into Suriname. Once it was confirmed that he was in Suriname the plug was pulled. Then Felix was TOLD to resign. Local “authorities” & representatives of the most honourable RK started street protestds etc to have him released. His cronies were NEVER charged, they continue to work as henchmen ensuring that RK’s business continues. Now here again we have QUITE A FEW career criminals running freely in our midst & they will continue to do so as long as the goverment wants them to.
well we are THREE big bust in december and counting. WE ARE LEAVING 2008 WITH A “BANG”. CANU is CAN-WHO? these guys are paid to sleep by the taxpayers and the smugglers. so what do we expect? security? guyanese ppl need to continue investing in grills for our homes and black tanks(our new symbol for land of many water-tanks). nothing will happen to these “foot-soldiers” they will b taken care of by the “real” dealers.