Airport cocaine find implicates ground staff in drug ring operation

An aircraft and equipment on the ground at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri (Stabroek News file photo)

The 10 kilogrammes of cocaine intercepted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri (CJIA) on Saturday night may have been belonged to a drug trafficking ring that is using aircraft ground handling staff to sneak drugs on to outgoing flights.

According to an official attached to an anti-narcotics agency, a well-organised ring of drug traffickers may have been operating at the CJIA recently in coordination with persons in other countries. The official said that investigation into Saturday night’s find suggests that the ground handling workers