Canje resident busted with suspected cocaine

The cannabis field

Police in Berbice on Saturday arrested a man, 27, from Adelphi Village, East Canje with 27 grams of suspected cocaine.

The unemployed man was reportedly arrested a short distance away from his house.

The police also said that they went to Vryheid Village, West Canje, Berbice around 3 pm and found about an acre of cannabis with several hundred plants measuring two to five feet in height and more than six thousand five hundred cannabis seedlings.