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The Guyana Police Force earlier this morning (Saturday) destroyed 2,253.60 kg of Marijuana with a street value of approximately $2,028,240,000 (Guyana dollars).
The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) also destroyed 512 KG equivalent to $153 million (Guyana dollars).The narcotics destruction exercise occurred at the former Ministry of Housing tarmac, Homestretch Avenue.
The period of the drug seizures is from January 2023 to date, and most of the seizures mainly occurred in Police Regional Divisions #5 and #6 along with minor seizures in Regions #4 and #10.Several people were charged and placed before the court while several plantations were found abandoned.
Present at this morning’s proceedings were Minister of Home Affairs, Honorable Robeson Benn, Mr. Troy Whittaker, the Officer-In-Charge of Police Narcotics, and Mr. James Singh, Director of CANU, along with other members of the Guyana Police Force and CANU.
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