Four held in Norton Street drug busts; driver jailed 4 years over 1.5 kg ganja
CANU officers searched a property and a car on Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, on 21 February 2023, finding cocaine and three cannabis parcels weighing 1.542 kilograms that the agency valued at GY$500,000. Four people were arrested; the car's driver, Chatterpaul “Dutchie” Singh, was jailed four years and fined GY$1,387,800 after a guilty plea.
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit officers, acting on information, searched a property
on Norton Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, on 21 February 2023 and found a
brick-like parcel that tested positive for cocaine.[1]Agents then searched a
car bearing registration PHH 9387 on the same street, in the presence of its
driver and another occupant, and found three brick-like parcels of suspected
cannabis.[1]The parcels tested positive for cannabis and weighed about 3.3
pounds (1.542 kilograms), which CANU valued at GY$500,000.[1]Four people were
arrested in the operation: Andre Clarke, 50, of Norton Street, Wortmanville, and
Eon Martin, 45, of Pike Street, Kitty, over the cocaine find, and Chatterpaul
“Dutchie” Singh, 39, of First Street, Cummings Lodge, and Anesia Isfehani, 24,
of Crown Dam Industry, both East Coast Demerara, with the cannabis.[1]
A Georgetown court sentenced Singh to four years in prison and fined him
GY$1,387,800 for trafficking in the 3.3 pounds of marijuana.[2]
The cocaine parcel, found at the property rather than in the car, weighed 2.55
pounds (1.158 kilograms) and CANU put its street value at GY$1.1 million.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
4
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Cannabis
1.542 kg
Prison
4 years
Fine
GYD 1,387,800
Value (official estimate)
GYD 500,000
Agency
Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU)
Agency type
Anti-narcotics agency
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (1.542 kg)
Activity
Possession, Sale
Setting
Vehicle, Home
Charge
possession of Cannabis sativa for the purpose of trafficking
The weight is given as approximately 3.3 pounds by CANU and Demerara Waves, while the court specified 1.542 kilograms; the report uses 1.542 kilograms.
The Demerara Waves account does not say whether the cannabis in the car belonged to the two people arrested at the property or to the car's occupants, and it links the four arrests only loosely to the two finds.
No charge or court outcome was reported for Andre Clarke, Eon Martin or Anesia Isfehani beyond the withdrawn charge.
The parcels were described in some accounts as cannabis including seeds and stems; the articles do not say whether the material was dried flower or resin.
The sentencing dates for the cocaine component of the same operation were not published in the accounts available here.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana: The driver Singh pleaded guilty to having 1.542 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of Cannabis sativa for the purpose of trafficking.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana: After the guilty plea, the charge against Isfehani was withdrawn and she was freed.
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