POLICE, on Wednesday, discovered over 3,000 grammes of marijuana in an abandoned house at Grove, East Bank Demerara.

According to information from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), a mobile patrol received information about narcotics being stored in an abandoned building at Lot 110 Grove, East Bank Demerara.

On arrival at the location, the ranks observed the building to be an unpainted two-storey concrete building. They searched the lower flat of the building and found two plastic barrels, one blue and the other light green in colour.

Inside the barrels were nine bulky transparent plastic parcels containing leaves, seeds, and stems suspected to be Cannabis Sativa (Marijuana) among several bed sheets.

The mentioned barrels with the parcels of suspect cannabis sativa and bedsheets were removed and taken to Grove Police Station. The leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis were weighed and amounted to 3,730.4 grammes.

Several persons were questioned, but no useful information was received. Investigations are ongoing, the GPF said.