Agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) arrested a Jamaican man on Tuesday during an operation at Nabaclis backlands, East Coast Demerara.[1] He was identified as 46-year-old Winston Thompson.[2] He lived in Victoria village on the East Coast of Demerara and was seen on the camp.[1] He was arrested and taken to CANU headquarters with the weapons, ammunition, processed cannabis and seeds.[1] He was assisting with the investigation.[1]

The operation also unearthed guns, ammunition and a ganja field.[1] CANU officers, acting on information, found a camp on a half-acre of land holding about 4,000 to 5,000 cannabis plants and seedlings.[1] They also found processed cannabis, 1 kilogram of mixed seeds, one shotgun, one crossbow with several arrows, and several calibres of ammunition.[1] The ammunition was thirty-one 9mm bullets, twelve .45 cartridges and four 12-gauge cartridges.[1]

A Jamaican man was in custody on Wednesday after he was allegedly caught on a half-acre marijuana farm at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara.[2] CANU said it continues operations around the country aimed at dismantling networks engaged in the cultivation, sale and distribution of narcotics.[2]