– bust hairdresser with ‘weed’ on Bartica boat

POLICE on Thursday destroyed a large marijuana farm about an acre in size on the Upper Demerara River.

The lawmen said in a statement that around 11:30hrs, a party of ranks went to Coomacka Mines on the Upper Demerara River, where they conducted a drug eradication operation.
On the farmstead, they found about 1,500 cannabis plants at various stages of growth, from around two to six feet tall and with an estimated weight of 300 kgs; a nursery with about 300 seedlings; a make-shift camp with three hammocks, kitchen utensils, clothing, groceries and 15 kgs of dried cannabis, all of which were torched.
No arrests have yet been made.

Meanwhile, in another operation on Wednesday at around 11:30hrs, ranks of the Bartica Station went to the Bartica Stelling just a stone’s throw away where they searched a passenger boat and found a black plastic bag with three scotch-taped parcels of cannabis weighing in excess of 1235 grams.
A 23-year-old hairdresser of Middle Road, La Penitence, who was a passenger on the boat, was taken into custody.