ANTI-narcotics agents on Monday arrested a mother of seven after she was found with 1.948 kilograms of cocaine concealed in her make-up, toiletries, a book and other personal items at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA).

The 42-year-old woman has been identified as Tommy Ann Bunbury, a food vendor who plies her trade at the Downtown Café Grill & Bar on Wichersstraat, in downtown Paramaribo, Suriname.

She reportedly gave her address as Condorstraat #1 Paramaribo, Suriname, and Lot 10, Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, Guyana.
“She allegedly has been living in Suriname for the past six years, and periodically returns to Guyana to fulfil immigration obligations,” the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) noted.
According to CANU, the food vendor was an outgoing passenger booked to travel on a flight destined for New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, via Eastern Airlines.

She’d travelled from Suriname to Guyana recently to embark on the flight. When law enforcement agents conducted a search on her two suitcases, carry-on piece, and a number of objects, including a hardcover book, handbag, makeup kits, deodorants, nail polish covers, mascara and permanent markers, they found “whitish substances suspected to be cocaine” inside them.
She was promptly arrested and taken to CANU headquarters pending further investigations.