A Guyanese woman was reportedly arrested with 5.7 pounds of cocaine on Saturday as she was about to board a New York bound flight at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.The cocaine was said to be concealed in a suitcase that the 32-year old woman had on her person. She was then taken by Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents to the drug agency’s headquarters where the cocaine was extracted and weighed.

In recent times, New York authorities have arrested Guyanese entering the US with cocaine concealed in their underwear and more recently in pepper-sauce.

It is unclear how those couriers were able to slip out the illicit narcotic through the Cheddi Jagan International Airport despite the presence of police and CANU drug agents as well as newly purchased equipment that detects if foreign objects are concealed on travellers’ bodies.