-partner being sought by CANU

A woman , who was carrying a 11-month-old baby while being an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Monday night , has been arrested by the anti-narcotics authorities.

According to a release from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) , on Monday of this week , Natasha Blair , 37 , a cosmetologist Lot  92 Grove /Diamond, East Bank Demerara was booked to travel on a Caribbean Airlines flight to New York.

Around 22:00hrs on Monday , Blair checked in her luggage and whilst on her way to the departure lounge she was intercepted by CANU ranks who escorted her to a city hospital. CANU said suspected cocaine pellets were displayed in her digestive tract on an x-ray  and  an object , which was  inserted in her lower extremity , was also observed.

Blair was admitted as a patient and has since extracted one large object suspected to contain cocaine that was observed in her lower extremity. Regarding the ingested pellets seen in her digestive tract , the woman has so-far excreted 3 suspected cocaine pellets and remains hospitalised. The woman’s baby has since been handed over to her grandmother.

CANU is hunting the woman’s  partner , one Sherwin Stoby called “Kong”  of Lot 87 Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown.

Anyone knowing his whereabouts are asked to contact CANU at 227- 3507.