Parika man busted with “poppy” in haversack

Athirty-year-old resident of Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), was on Saturday busted with a quantity of imported ganja during an operation at Zeeburg Public Road, EBE.

The Customs AntiNarcotics Unit (CANU) stated that on the day in question, Andy Jainandan, who was carrying a haversack along the Zeeburg Public Road, was stopped.

A search was subsequently carried out on the haversack during which five bricklike parcels suspected to be cannabis were found. As such, Jainandan was cautioned and

Arrested: Andy Jainandan taken to CANU Headquarters where the suspected cannabis was tested and positively identified as imported cannabis known as “poppy”.