Three held at Burnside checkpoint with bags of suspected cannabis
Police at the Burnside checkpoint in Coronie stopped a car on the evening of 23 August 2026 and found plant material resembling cannabis in several plastic bags. The three occupants were held after consultation with prosecutors, and the Narcotics Brigade took over the investigation.
🇸🇷 Burnside police checkpoint, Coronie district · Suriname
Police stopped a car for a check at the Burnside checkpoint in Coronie district
on the evening of Sunday 23 August 2026.[1][2]In the car they found plant
material - dried leaves, stems and seeds - that strongly resembled Cannabis
sativa, packed in several plastic bags.[1][2]
The three people inside were arrested: a 39-year-old known by the initials N.H.,
a 42-year-old K.B. and an 18-year-old Guyanese national, A.J.[1][2]Officers
took them to the Coronie police station.[1]
Police seized the car and the material.[1]After consulting the Public
Prosecution Service (Openbaar Ministerie), they held the three in custody (in
verzekering gesteld).[1][2]The case was handed to the Narcotics Brigade for
further investigation.[1][2]
The statement gave no weight for the plant material.[1]
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The three suspects, their faces obscured, with the black bags of seized plant material after the checkpoint arrest.Photo details
No weight was published for the plant material found in the car.
The police did not say where the three were travelling from or to.
No charge, court date or outcome is reported; the case was handed to the Narcotics Brigade.
The two published accounts repeat the same police statement; no independent reporting was found.
Police reported a separate case at the same checkpoint the same night, in which an officer was stopped with two suitcases of suspected cannabis; that event is not covered here.
Police arrested two people at Tamansarie on 5 November 2026 after a tip that a dealer was selling drugs from his car near two schools in Tamanredjo. Officers found crack cocaine and marijuana plus packaging material and a precision scale in the car; the suspected seller was detained while the drug user arrested with him was released.
A Surinamese police unit checked drug sales points in Albina and Moengo in Marowijne district on 4 November 2026, firing warning shots in Albina when a suspect ran off into a thicket. In Moengo police held a man known by the initials P.R. with an unspecified amount of hashish, which he said was for his own use, and kept him in pre-trial custody.
Suriname's Narcotica Brigade arrested a 53-year-old man at an address on the Bealaan in Paramaribo on 3 November 2026 after he tried and failed to flush 56 grams of marijuana down the toilet. Police held him in verzekering, Suriname's pre-trial custody, after consulting prosecutors.
Police in eastern Suriname arrested 37-year-old civil servant O.S. in Mariënburg on 31 October 2026 with 72 grams of hashish. He said it was for personal use, but he is also accused of selling drugs to young people and was placed in pretrial detention.
