THE GUYANA Police Force (GPF) on Friday afternoon dumped into the Atlantic Ocean 55 kilogrammes, 286 grams (kg) of cocaine which had been seized by the police over a two-year period, thus taking off the streets illicit drugs with a local street value of Gy$49M.

Ranks from the Police Marine Section and the Narcotics branch, accompanied by the media, a representative of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) and the Ministry of Public Security, boarded police boat Baramani at the Police Marine Section at Ruimveldt, and went more than six miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.

The solid cocaine was already emptied from packages and made into powder which was placed in a salt bag, while the liquefied cocaine was in four bottles of various brands of rum.
Head of the Police Narcotics Branch, Superintendent Wayne DeHearte, said the bulk of the cocaine was netted on March 19, 2015 when 40kg of the illicit substance were found in false bottoms of buckets at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

He related that of the total amount of cocaine, 6kg in liquefied form was seized at Guyana’s ports of entry. The cocaine was already placed in bottles of rum destined for export to the United States.

Earlier this week, 294 kilograms, 232 grams of cannabis sativa with a local street value of $147,115,950.00 was destroyed by fire at the Princes Street Incinerator by ranks of the GPF Narcotics Branch, the police said.

The destroyed narcotics represented mainly exhibits from court cases concluded over a two-year period, besides those amounts found during police raids in which no arrests were made.