Five arrested with 12.3 kg of cannabis in a hire car at Aurora
Guyana Police Force ranks stopped a hire car on the Aurora Public Road on the Essequibo Coast on 12 June 2017 and found 25 taped parcels of cannabis weighing 12.3 kg. Five people, including the driver and a woman passenger, were arrested and taken in for questioning; charges were expected shortly.
🇬🇾 Aurora Public Road, Essequibo Coast, Region Two · Guyana
Guyana Police Force ranks stopped and searched a hire car on the Aurora Public
Road on the Essequibo Coast on the morning of 12 June 2017, and arrested the
five people inside.[1]Acting on information, officers stopped the car about
08:00hrs and found a carton box holding 25 taped parcels of cannabis.[1]The
driver and a woman passenger were among the five taken into custody.[1]
Police weighed the parcels at 12.3 kilograms, the equivalent of the just over 25
pounds reported by News Source Guyana.[1]Officers took the suspects and the
drug to the Aurora Police Station, where the drug amounted to 12.3kg.[2]News
Source Guyana described the seizure as just over 25 pounds of marijuana found in
the car on the Aurora Public Road.[3]
Police had not released the names of any of the arrested people.[3]The five
were expected to be charged shortly.[2]News Source Guyana said charges were
expected to be filed before the end of that week.[3]
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The cannabis police said they seized at Aurora, Essequibo Coast.Photo details
News Source Guyana describes just over 25 pounds of marijuana while the police statement carried by two other outlets gives 12.3 kg; the report uses the police figure.
No names of the five arrested people were published, and no charges or court outcome are reported.
The hire car's origin and destination are not stated.
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