DEPUTY Commissioner of Police and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud yesterday said that statements were taken from several persons as the investigations into the chocolate coated cocaine in sweetie wrapper widen.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday, the Crime Chief stated that the police have already taken statements from the shopkeeper in Whitewater where the children bought the sweets; statements were also taken from the person the shopkeeper bought the sweets from.
He also confirmed that the file has since been sent to the Director of Public prosecution for advice.
He confirmed that the wrappers were indeed those which came from the Beharry Group of Companies and that they originally contained the sweets manufactured by the company.
He explained that some person or persons removed the sweets, replaced them with cocaine and coated the drug with a brownish substance to make it look authentic.
Mr. Persaud made it clear that the items which the children bought were not sweets laced with cocaine, but rather cocaine which was painted.
At least one government health body is very concerned that even if the sweets were ‘doctored’ in the city, how did they get to Region 1.