SIX persons found with seven-and-a-half-kilograms of cannabis have been arrested following a police operation in New Amsterdam, Berbice, on Saturday morning.

Those in custody include a husband, his wife, their daughter and three other females. The suspected traffickers who were caught packaging the illegal substance are being processed for court on Monday.

During a similar operation in ‘C’ Division Saturday afternoon, police ranks arrested a 30-year-old unemployed male resident of First Street, Paradise, East Coast Demerara at his home with seven kilograms of cannabis.

He too is being processed for court.