A SURINAMESE national, suspected of ingesting cocaine, is currently under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

She was reportedly arrested around 19:20hrs on Monday by ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch while on an outgoing flight at the Ogle International Airport, where a search of her person unearthed 902 grams of cocaine.

And in a separate incident, a man was taken into police custody after a search unearthed a quantity of marijuana on Monday night.

Police say that at about 22:35 hrs on Monday, ranks of a mobile patrol conducted a  search on a man on the D’Edward Village Public Road, on the West Coast Berbice and found over three kilograms of marijuana in his possession.