POLICE ranks and agents from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) made a joint cocaine bust at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) early yesterday morning.
This time the illicit drug was concealed in a consignment of noodles (macaroni) destined for Canada.

At about 03:30 hrs yesterday morning, acting on information received, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the CJIA conducted a search among a quantity of boxes of mangoes consigned for shipment to Canada.
A total of 21 kilograms 874 grams of cocaine were found concealed in macaroni boxes which were among the mangoes.
Four men, including the lone shipper who was detained on the spot, have been arrested and are in police custody assisting with the investigations.
CANU had earlier reported that the illegal substance was discovered during a routine check on the shipment and the cocaine was disguised in drinking straws with the same colour as the noodles.
Reports said ‘Champion’ brand pasta was emptied from packets that were re-packed with the cocaine filled straws similarly coloured.
The consignment was claimed to have been shipped from Prestigious Foods, located at Lots 1-2 Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara, on a Caribbean Airlines flight destined  to Sunset Products in Canada.
Last November 30, CANU destroyed some 327 kilogrammes of cocaine that was in soap powder headed to Niger, in Africa, but found at John Fernandes Limited wharf.
That find resulted from an inspection and police nabbed the shipper.
Recently, too, a large quantity of cocaine in tinned coconut milk, worth US$7.1M, was intercepted before it left for Malaysia and two men have been charged with the trafficking.
Over the years, narcotic drugs, mostly cocaine, have been sent abroad from Guyana in lumber, pepper sauce and other foods, among merchandise for foreign markets, through local seaports and airports.