On the night of 6 August 2025 a specialised police team led by an Inspector carried out a targeted cordon and search operation at Puruni Landing on the Mazaruni River.[1] Acting on intelligence, the team went to the home of 37-year-old Hudley Khan, also known as Allan, where his reputed wife, 32-year-old Venezuelan national Yolimar Del Valle Rivas, was present.[1] Both people present were arrested, told of the offences against them and taken to the Bartica Police Station.[1]

Officers asked to search for illegal firearms, narcotics and ammunition, and Khan said he had narcotics in his room.[2] Khan directed police to a multi-coloured bag holding 23 bulky brown parcels and one transparent plastic bag of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis.[1] At the station the suspected cannabis weighed 12,542.5 grams, about 12.5 kg.[1] Officers also seized one plastic bag of a whitish rock-like substance suspected to be methamphetamine.[1] The suspected methamphetamine weighed 108.8 grams.[1] Police documented $1,120,810 in cash suspected to be narcotics proceeds and 5.9 pennyweights of raw gold.[1]

Khan admitted owning the narcotics in a video-recorded interview at the scene but later declined further questioning, and both suspects remained in custody while investigations continued.[1] The accounts in both outlets came from a Guyana Police Force statement.[2]