AFTER spending several days in police custody, two persons who were arrested on Monday with suspected cocaine in 12 packets of Fernleaf powdered milk were released, on Thursday, when further tests revealed no narcotics in the products.
The police had, on Monday, initially seized the dairy products which were found in the luggage of a 34-year-old self-employed female of New Street Cumberland, Canje, who was an outgoing passenger at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport, Ogle.
A male was also subsequently arrested.

However, in a twist on Thursday, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) announced that there was never any cocaine in the products and the persons have been released.
“Further tests conducted yesterday, August 18, 2021, by the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory on twelve packets labelled Fernleaf Milk, that were suspected by the police to have contained a mixture of cocaine, have revealed no trace of the narcotic in their contents,” the report informed.
The police did not offer any apology to the humiliated pair, notwithstanding the woman having missed her flight due to the situation, spent time in the lockups and had her milk confiscated.

Both the man and the woman had maintained no knowledge of narcotics being in the product.
It was on Monday the police issued a statement, noting that the female passenger, who was bound for Barbados on a Caribbean Airlines Flight BW 217, had been arrested after a search of her luggage revealed the milk packets, among her clothing. According to the police, a rank tested the milk “using the Narcotic testing kit” and “there was an indication of a narcotic suspected to be cocaine”.
The woman and man were escorted to the Criminal Investigations Department Narcotics Branch and placed in custody while the milk powder was weighed and had amounted to 4.873kg. The police had said that “the search was prompted after the woman was seen acting in a suspicious manner”.