A 24-year-old American citizen was nabbed with cocaine in his luggage at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport yesterday and authorities believe that he might have also swallowed pellets.
While the information on this latest bust is sketchy, Stabroek News was reliably informed that during a routine search of the man’s suitcase, the drugs were found concealed in false compartments.
The man was an outgoing passenger on an early morning Caribbean Airlines flight bound for the USA.
This is the second bust in as many days at Guyana’s premier airport. On Friday morning a woman travelling with a child was caught with the illegal substance concealed in the false compartments of three suitcases. She was scheduled to leave the country on a Caribbean Airlines flight.
Last Tuesday United States resident, Steven Dixon was remanded to prison after he was allegedly intercepted at the airport several days earlier with over 5 kilogrammes of cocaine in his suitcase.
Dixon age 30, of 125 Ocean Park, Brooklyn, USA and 7 Garnett Street, Campbellville was not required to plead to the trafficking in narcotics charge.
