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.
Mr. Commish take a giant step and start with the seizure of the assets of all the alleged players involved in the shipments.Then go after them for tax evasion. That is, if you have the gall to do it.
The commissioner can seize properties, the courts can to do this. It would be nice, but remember the money people control everthing in Guyana. Even the courts.
God bless Guyana….. I think.
oh yes!!!!
well said fulano, corruption is most abound in guyana, and at it’s hihgest level ever,from the very top and trickles down to the very bottom, this present admin must, must go at all cost, give cn sharma a chance or something, anything to get the ppp to dissapear.
That has to be the most stupidest thing i’v read so far on this website and it so happens to come from an american ( GOD BLESS AMERICA ) no wonder things got the way they are over there. For you to say that cn sharma should be given a chance, it speaks volumes about the thinking that happening over here. But there still hope for you in this new year you people should think be for you talk and act.
Why won’t the administration agree to having the US DEA siting an office in Guyana?? – What a rhetorical question!
My dad used to say “When rogues and vagabonds fall out all honest men come into their rights” The problem I have with that is “IT’S TAKING TOO LONG” My country writhes in agony as she waits!!!
The DEA DOES indeed have a listening post in Guyana.
Do you want to see a whole lot of real estate boarded up because their owners are in the jail? Do you want to see businesses shut down? That is exactly what would happen should the DEA come to town. I know I certainly would like to see these “businessmen” out of business. They are a disgrace and nothing good could come from them only violence and death.
Ok here it is you people need to stop talking about this it’s over done, it nothing. 400 kg is nothing, that get sold out in a week and less it’s just a drop in the bucket the u.s and canada have more than that coming in to their countries everyday, the way that ya’ll talking it like guyana is the biggest drug port in the world ( if it was then it would be getting the millions that the u.s and canada give to countries every year ). As for the guys they looking for of corse they gone they would have known about the bust when it happened not when it came out in the news come on people think.
SHAME!!..SHAME!!.SHAME
ON ALL OF THEM. THESE DEPORTEES ARE THE BAD APPLES I HAVE NO IDEA HOW AND WHEN THESE PEOPLE WILL BE CAUGHT, I HOPE SOON.!!! THE GUYANA GOVERTMENT SHOULD THROW THE BAD PEOPLE ON AN ISLAND WHEN THEY RETURN TO GUYANA WITHOUT A SKILL AND INSIST ON DOING THE SAME THING WHICH GOT THEM DEPORTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. I AM NOT SAYING ALL DEPORTEES ARE DRUG PEOPLE MY POINT IS THE ONES WHO COME BACK ON THESE CHARGES
SHOULD BE DEALT IN A DIFFERENT MANNER.
Ann don’t forget when guyana refused to take the ones from Canada back, the Canadian gov loaded them on a charter flight and dump them off at Timehri Airport.Later the said they were sorry and would not do that again. Please check your facts.
ANN – Don’t go there …there was a deportee who was deported for drug trafficking and she became a lawyer. I know you’re not serious.
i said it before and i will say it again don’t believe when people you know suddenly get rich and they tell you their great great great grandparents left them legacy. People if you win the lottery have your picture taken when you are receiving the check…..hahahahahahaha.
john,,,you funny as hell.lol…
SWAT..LIKE I SAID NOT ALL DEPORTEES ARE BAD PEOPLE….THE DEPORTEE WHO HAS BECOME A LAWYER IS ONE IN A MILLION HOW MANY OF THESE DEPORTEES WOULD TURN THEIR LIVES AROUND IN SUCH A PROFOUND MANNER… I HEAR YOU BOTH YOU AND I KNOW THEIR ARE EXCEPTION TO EVERY RULE…. THIS LADY HAD
GOOD IN HER, ALL ALONG SHE PROBABLY JUST GOT CAUGHT UP IN SOME THING. WHICH LEAD HER TO THE PLACE IN HER LIFE; THAT I AM SURE SHE REGRETS.
NEVER THE LESS I AM SURE SHE IS A VERY GOOOD PERSON… GOD BLESS HER
IN HER PROFESSION SHE HAS CHOOSEN.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL
Utter disgrace to Guyana from these mindless creeps. I hope they are jailed for 50 years.