Georgetown – Police have detained two people, one of them a 34-year-old woman, after they seized nearly five kilogrammes of cocaine in milk packets they said she was planning to take to Barbados.
The police said the self-employed woman was held shortly before she was scheduled to board a Barbados-bound Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport on Monday.
“The search was prompted after the woman was seen acting in a suspicious manner. A search was carried out on her luggage where a law enforcement rank found several . . . packets of milk among clothing and other stuff,” the police said in a statement.
The police said that after being told of the offence the woman broke her silence and named a man who had allegedly given her the packets to take to Barbados.
“As a result of this new information, the second suspect was contacted, told of the offence, arrested and cautioned,” police said.
They were both escorted to the Criminal Investigations Department Narcotics Branch and placed in custody.
Police said that the cocaine weighed 4.873kg. A street value of the drugs was not given. (CMC)
