Shipper held over cocaine container

The Customs and Trade Administration (CTA) has held a man believed to be the shipper of the container of logs in which five bags of cocaine were found in Jamaica last week.

Sources told Stabroek News that CTA officials were questioning the man and up to late last evening neither ranks from the Guyana Police Force or the Customs Anti-Narco-tics Unit (CANU) had been called in to handle the investigation.

This newspaper was told that while the police and CANU can charge persons with drug-related offences, the CTA, which is an arm of the