Search on for local shipper after cocaine in peppers intercepted in T&T

Law enforcement officials yesterday confirmed that they are looking for a city resident who shipped a consignment of Wiri-Wiri peppers with concealed cocaine that was intercepted in Trinidad and Tobago last Friday morning, before it could reach its United States destination.

The interception has also prompted a local investigation into how the drugs managed to evade detection at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri (CJIA), from where the flight with the shipment departed.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud told Stabroek News that police and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU)