A 50-year-old man who holds dual citizenship for Guyana and the USA was detained on Monday after he was caught with a large quantity of marijuana shortly after arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). CANU said the suspect is likely to face charges today.
Joel Cadogan, who lives and works in New York, was taken into custody when the discovery was made by customs officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).

“There appears to be a developing trend of nefarious individuals trafficking presumably novel grades of marijuana into Guyana from the developed world, reversing the traditional trafficking transshipment flow,” the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has underscored.
CANU has noted that the suspect entered Guyana with three large suitcases and two hand-pieces.
It was after clearing immigration and while being subject to a random search by a GRA customs official that four compressed plastic parcels of suspected cannabis wrapped in a pair of ‘jeans’ were uncovered in his luggage. The substance, when weighed, amounted to 4lbs. The suspect was duly detained and handed over to CANU officials at the CJIA, then escorted to the Georgetown Headquarters. When the remainder of his luggage was searched, several pairs of sneakers were found to have been stuffed with small Ziploc bags and a tabletop scale.