Cocaine found in Linden charcoal

A Linden businessman is in custody following the seizure of a quantity of cocaine packed among several hundred bags of charcoal in a 40-ft container at Silver Hill, Linden, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) James Singh said today.

Singh said there are about 1200 bags of what was suspected to be cocaine and agents are still going through those bags to ascertain just how much of the illicit drug the man was attempting to ship out of Guyana.