-wanted bulletin issued for two others

A 30-year-old woman, was, on Friday remanded to prison for attempting to smuggle cocaine in the false bottom of a box, through the Eugene F. Correia International Airport at Ogle.

Pathrina Pilgrim of North Road, Bourda, appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and denied that, on January 27, she had 534 grams of cocaine in her possession for the purpose of trafficking. She was remanded to prison until February 19. Pilgrim was nabbed by Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) after ranks at the airport intercepted a box containing suspected cocaine, prior to it being loaded onto a flight destined for Brooklyn, New York. The suspected cocaine was found in two parcels, each wrapped in carbon and concealed in a false bottom of the said box. The box contained a quantity of local snacks: coconut biscuit, mittai, chicken foot, and one packet of uncooked vermicelli. The two parcels were weighed, and amounted to 534 grammes. As Pilgrim was being arraigned in court, CANU issued wanted bulletins for two persons in relation to the cocaine bust. Wanted for questioning are Chelsea Collins of Lot 10 David Rose Street, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown and Edinho Lewis of Lot 25 Shopping Plaza, South Ruimveldt, Georgetown. Anyone knowing their whereabouts are asked to contact CANU Headquarters on 227-3507 or 226-0431.