CANU finds 80 kg of ganja in a Line Path cane field; no arrests
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit officers found 80 kilograms (176 pounds) of cannabis in four salt bags hidden in a cane field at Goat Dam, Line Path, Corentyne, during a two-day operation on 9-10 December 2021. The people seen in the field ran off, and CANU put the street value of the haul at more than GY$25 million.
🇬🇾 Goat Dam, Line Path, Corentyne, Berbice, East Berbice-Corentyne · Guyana
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officers seized80 kilogrammes (176 pounds)
of marijuana in the Corentyne area of Berbice on the evening of 10 December
2021.[1]CANU put the street value of the cannabis at more than GY$25,000,000.[1]
The operation ran on 9 and 10 December between the Sandaka pump station at
Skeldon and the Goat Dam area of Line Path village, to identify routes used to
move narcotics.[1]On the evening of 10 December officers on patrol along a
dam saw several people in an adjacent cane field, identified themselves and
tried to detain them, but the people ran off in different directions.[1]
A search of the area found four brown salt bags holding 28 parcels of cannabis
wrapped in transparent plastic.[1]The parcels were taken to CANU headquarters
and investigations continued.[1]No one was arrested in the bust; Stabroek
News reported that the suspected owners of the narcotics evaded the officers.[2]The parcels weighed a total of 176 pounds, Stabroek News reported.[2]
Guyana Times also reported the 80 kilograms total and the GY$25 million street
value, and placed the find at the Goat Dam area of Line Path village.[3]The
St. Kitts-based WINN FM republished the Demerara Waves account, which identifies
CANU as a unit of the Ministry of Home Affairs.[4]
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Source: Stabroek NewsParcels of cannabis seized in the CANU operation, published with the Demerara Waves report on the Line Path seizure.Photo details
The incident is dated 10 December 2021, the evening of the find; the operation began on 9 December.
The weight is reported as 80 kilograms and 176 pounds, which do not exactly match (176 lb is about 79.8 kg); the reported 80 kg figure is used.
No one was arrested and no suspects were named; the people seen in the field escaped and no later charges or court outcome were reported.
The GY$25 million value is CANU's street-value estimate, not an independently verified market figure.
The material is described as cannabis with no laboratory confirmation reported.
Goat Dam and Line Path are named, but no coordinates for the dam were published; the map point marks Line Path, Corentyne.
A separate CANU operation at Goat Dam, Line Path in June 2021 found about 80 kg worth about $10 million; that is a different event and is not covered by this report.
Guyana Times and WINN FM reproduce the CANU release or the Demerara Waves text, so they are not independent accounts.
The two photographs listed are of the seized parcels, but neither caption identifies a specific spot beyond the article text.
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.
