Four held as CANU finds 85.8 kg of ganja in a Dartmouth house
CANU officers searched a house at 221 Clarke Street, Dartmouth, on the Essequibo Coast on 19 December 2020 and arrested four people, including a woman. The agency said it found 79 parcels of cannabis weighing 85.804 kg, which it described as commercial 'Creepie weed' trafficked from Venezuela and valued at US$80,000.
Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers searched a house at 221 Clarke
Street, Dartmouth, on the Essequibo Coast.[1]The search took place on
Saturday, 19 December 2020.[1]Four people were arrested, including a woman.[2]Officers found the cannabis in suitcases in a room, already packed into 79
parcels.[3]
CANU said the parcels weighed 85.804 kilograms, about 189 pounds.[1]Stabroek
News reported a street value of US$80,000, equivalent to more than $16 million.[4]Stabroek News reported that the cannabis was already packaged and labelled
when it was found, and that it was suspected of being prepared for sending
overseas.[4]
CANU said it believed the cannabis was commercial “Creepie weed” trafficked from
Venezuela.[4]Kaieteur News reported that the parcels bore what appeared to be
a British flag and that it was believed they had been smuggled to Guyana from
Venezuela.[2]CANU head James Singh said the unit had launched a countrywide
campaign to bring traffickers to justice.[1]The investigation was ongoing.[4]
Photos and video
Parcels of the high-grade cannabis seized at the Dartmouth house, in the CANU handout photo published by Stabroek News. Photo: CANUPhoto details
Kaieteur News reported the haul as 188 pounds in its headline, while CANU's weighed figure was 85.804 kilograms (about 189 pounds); the report uses the weighed figure.
No charges, court date or outcome had been reported for the four people arrested.
The Guyanese accounts reproduce the same CANU statement, so the details of the search rest on the agency's release.
CANU said the cannabis was believed to have been trafficked from Venezuela but did not say how or where it crossed the border.
CANU arrested one man in New Amsterdam and three people at Crabwood Creek during operations in Region Six from 4 to 8 November 2026, and reported seizing more than 226 kilograms of cannabis, a shotgun and 110 cartridges. The largest find, 186.8 kilograms at Sand Hills, led to no arrests.
Police searching a bushy unoccupied plot at Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, on 17 October 2026 found six buckets holding black bags of leaves, seeds and stems weighing 23.854 pounds. No one was arrested and the cannabis was lodged at the Central Police Station.
Guyanese police seized 35.4 kg of suspected cannabis and GYD $455,180 during an operation on Ituni Road. They arrested one rider while another escaped.
CANU officers searching a house on Princes Street, Lodge, in Georgetown seized 86 parcels of foreign cannabis weighing 98.32 pounds (about 44.6 kg), valued at about GYD $80 million, plus four pistols and a rifle. Two Guyanese men were arrested, though CANU's own statement referred only to several persons held in custody assisting investigations.
