A BAG containing 930 grams of cannabis, 52 packs of cigarettes and other prohibited items was early Sunday morning thrown into the New Amsterdam Prison Compound, but was retrieved by prison warders and handed over to police.

Later that morning on the West Coast of Berbice (WCB), police ranks conducted a routine stop and search operation and arrested two males and a female in a motorcar on the Weldaad Public Road after a search on them revealed 11 taped parcels of cannabis. The parcels were hidden in various sections of the car.

Reports indicate that while six law enforcement officers were on the Weldaad Public Road, West Coast Berbice (WCB), they observed motorcar PMM 8939 heading towards Georgetown, but the driver observed the road block and suddenly turned north onto a dam at Plantation Hope, WCB.

Three police ranks gave chase and managed to intercept the car and its three occupants.
They were escorted to the station where a search was carried out and four transparent parcels with suspected cannabis were found under the bonnet, three similar parcels were found in the trunk around the spare wheel, along with a white plastic bag containing four similar parcels with suspected cannabis.

The driver was identified as a 42-year-old construction worker of New Amsterdam. The other two occupants were a 24-year-old sales representative of Church’s Chicken and of New Amsterdam and a 26-year-old mechanic, also of New Amsterdam.
The suspected narcotic weighed 11 pounds. The persons in the vehicle were taken into police custody as investigations continue.