Linden miner busted with suspected marijuana at Ituni

The suspected ganja (Police photo)
The suspected ganja (Police photo)

A 55-year-old man of Victory Valley in Wismar, Linden, was on Sunday busted with 14,900 grams of suspected cannabis by  ranks from the Ituni Police Station who were on patrol.

The ranks, led by a Corporal, were on patrol within the vicinity of the Ituni Police Station at about 21:45 hrs when they stopped motorcar PRR 4322, owned and driven by the 55-year-old man who is a miner and resides at Victory Valley, Wismar.

The police in a statement yesterday said that the ranks then searched the man and the motor vehicle. A search of the vehicle’s trunk unearthed a black garbage bag containing six bulky parcels of a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.

The 55-year-old man, under caution, told the ranks: “Officer, is a man tell me about de hustle, and I pick it up.”

The suspected cannabis, when weighed, amounted to fourteen thousand, nine hundred grams.

The 55-year-old man was placed into custody pending charges.