Cases being built against drug kingpins

Outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy here, Bryan Hunt has urged patience as it relates to indictments of local drug barons saying that cases are being built in the background that can guarantee convictions.

“I am relatively confident that we are at a point now, in the relatively near term, we are going to see a greater ability on the part of CANU, SOCU, the Guyana Police Force to be able to arrest those that are at the medium and upper echelons of the narcotics pyramid here,” Hunt told Stabroek News in an interview last week, referring to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Special Organised Crime Unit.

The official, who leaves Guyana at the end of the month, said that while some persons might be frustrated as it