TWO brothers were arrested on Thursday, after cannabis was reportedly found in their Tuschen New Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo house.

Police said, in a statement, that Kevin De’cruz, 24, and Patrick De’cruz, 25, were in custody pending charges.

At approximately 05:30 hours, police, acting on information received, went to the house of the brothers and conducted a search in their presence.

Under Kevin’s bed, the ranks reportedly found one large transparent zip lock plastic bag containing several smaller zip lock bags with suspected cannabis.

According to the statement, Kevin confessed to the officers stating, “Is just a small portion, I can deal with that”.

A more thorough search was carried out in the hall where another transparent plastic bag containing suspected cannabis was found on the table. Patrick reportedly told the officers, “Is me thing. Is a lil thing.”

They were arrested and escorted to the Leonora Police Station along with the suspected cannabis.

In the presence of Kevin, the suspected cannabis was weighed and it amounted to 54.5 grammes, while the other portion was weighed in the presence of Patrick and it amounted to 13.3 grammes.