Leisa Bessessar was arrested at the Eugene F. Correia ‘Ogle’ Airport on the morning of Wednesday 3 October 2018, as she turned up to collect a box of items.[1] The woman, of Lot 6 Shell Road, Kitty, Georgetown, was intercepted by Guyana Revenue Authority customs officers and Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents when she attempted to claim the package, and was held in custody assisting with the investigation.[1] CANU said the woman it arrested at the airport was suspected of trafficking marijuana.[2] Ogle Airport is on the East Coast Demerara.[3]

The box was a styrofoam container holding clothing and other items together with four bulk parcels of suspected marijuana.[1] Investigators put the weight of the marijuana at 2.280 kilogrammes.[1] The parcels were sent through the SkyWest Charter Service, a subsidiary of Trans Guyana Airways that transports cargo to and from interior locations, using a Trans Guyana plane.[2]

CANU accused Terrence Bowman, a shop and dredge owner of Arakaka in the North West District and the father of Bessessar’s child, of sending the box, and said it believed he knowingly shipped the parcel containing the drugs.[1] The agency issued a wanted bulletin for Bowman and said it was working with the police to apprehend him.[1] CANU said it was working with the police to apprehend the woman’s child’s father, who resides at Arakaka in the North West District, Barima-Waini.[2] A dredge owner was wanted by authorities after allegedly air-shuttling some 2.2 kilograms of marijuana to his child’s mother.[3]