…CANU hunts boyfriend

A WOMAN who was carrying an 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 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, 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 excreted 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 three 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.