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100 kilo cocaine bust…CANU ranks under close arrest over missing coke

April 18, 2015 | By | Filed Under News 
 

 …police called in

 

Two officers of the country’s main anti-narcotics unit are now the subject of a police investigation after it had been discovered that a quantity of cocaine has disappeared from its stores.

 

Cocaine Fish

Cocaine Fish

This comes less than 24 hours after Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents swooped down on a Diamond New Scheme, East Bank Demerara house where they unearthed more than 100 kilogrammes of cocaine during an undercover operation. Acting on intelligence, anti-drug agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) raided the house and seized the illicit substance and a large sum of money in both local and United States currency. Some of the cocaine was stuffed in frozen seafood, while the remainder was found to be bricks of raw coke. Reports are that the bust was a result of a five-hour sting operation which began around 13:00 hours yesterday. As a result, businessman Barry Dataram, also called ‘Mogotani’ or Kevin Dataram, who was in the house, was arrested. He was with his reputed wife and three others at the time of the bust. The five are still in custody and are assisting with investigations. Speaking with Kaieteur News Thursday evening, Head of CANU, James Singh, said that anti-drug agents had received information that a major narcotics operation was taking place at the location. He said that his ranks swiftly stormed the house before the occupants could stash the narcotics. Singh said investigations are ongoing and charges are expected to be laid shortly. Despite yesterday’s development, Dataram will be charged, a CANU official confirmed. Dataram, a Guyana-born American, had successfully fought off efforts to extradite him to the United States to face drug smuggling charges. Between 2008 and 2010, Dataram was engaged in several successful legal manoeuvres in Guyana’s High Court to prevent him from being sent to the US for trial. The United States was unable to secure his provisional arrest because the extradition treaty between Guyana and the US clashes with the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders Act, which says “no one shall be extradited or kept in custody for the purpose of extradition from Guyana to another country unless provision has been made by that Commonwealth or treaty-country for ensuring that they would not be extradited to a third country for trial of any offence without the consent of the Minister.” In January, collaboration between agencies involved in the country’s Container Control Programme resulted in the confiscation of 192 kilograms, 420 grams of cocaine destined for Europe. Drug fighters had intercepted a cargo ship, MV DELTADIEP, while at Linden in Region Ten, and arrested several members of the crew. Last August, a Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible (SPSS) was found in the dense jungle of the hinterland. The semi-submersible vessel was more than likely built at the camp site in Waini River, North West District, Region One.

 

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Last August, a Self-Propelled Semi-Submersible (SPSS) was found in the dense jungle of the hinterland. The semi-submersible vessel was more than likely built at the camp site in Waini River, North West District, Region One.

 

More than six months has elapsed and yet, nothing has come of this issue.

 

Wake up Rohee.

FM

This fellow was known to th e US for a decade. The PPP admin refuse to turn him over. The AG then a judge let him go.

 

Drugs and the business of drugs are among the most corrosive to the fabric of society. We have an insurmountable volume coming in because of the PPP blind eye policy to their drug friends. They saw the benefit of the money not the curse of the disease of junkies. We have them everywhere and the will get only more plentiful. With no effort to treat or no publicly rehabilitation center we can only go from bad to worse. Junkies do not self rehabilitate. They are also responsible for all serious crimes.

 

Drug money undercut creativity. Smart people cannot compete in a marketplace where washing money is the profit. The reason we are a fast food empire built on a glut of cheap consumer spending is all on account of drug lords laundering cash. For that reason we will not see any small manufacturing or niche industries. They get wiped out before the are started.

FM

Quote "They saw the benefit of the money not the curse of the disease of junkies. We have them everywhere and the will get only more plentiful. With no effort to treat or no publicly rehabilitation center we can only go from bad to worse. Junkies do not self rehabilitate. They are also responsible for all serious crimes." unquote

 

Junkies are now walking the streets of Guyana like a country of the living dead under the Corrupt PPP/C, recently it was in the news where they had an incident where a junky kidnap a nine year old kid.

 

Drug addict confesses to raping, murdering boy, 9

April 9, 2015 | By | Filed Under News 

A 22-year-old drug addict has reportedly told police that he abducted nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens, then bound, sodomised, mutilated and killed him in a desolate stretch of backlands in South Ruimveldt.

Dead: Nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens

Dead: Nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens

The suspect, who is also from South Ruimveldt, then accompanied detectives back to the area where he had allegedly committed the crime. According to police sources, the suspect claimed that he had seen Shaquan Gittens walking at night on Caneview Avenue, South Ruimveldt two Wednesdays ago. He said that he walked near to the child and caused him to ‘trip’. After Gittens fell, the suspect said that he dragged him to an area, which is approximately half a mile from the nearest house in South Ruimveldt. He allegedly then tied the child’s hands and sodomized him. The suspect alleged that he was choking the child while sexually assaulting him. “He said the lil boy didn’t wake up so he dragged him under a tree and both of them slept there. The next morning (April 2nd) when he (the suspect) wake up, he notice the lil boy ain’t moving,” a police source said. According to the police, the suspect said that he then sliced off his victim’s private part and sodomized him again, after which he dumped the lad’s motionless body in a trench. Government pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh yesterday gave the cause of death as manual strangulation and drowning. There were also signs of sexual assault and the postmortem also confirmed that the child’s privates were missing. Kaieteur News understands that the

The suspect

The suspect

suspect had provided graphic details about the murder, including the mutilation of his victim, before the postmortem was conducted. Police suspect that the alleged killer knew his victim, since he habitually did odd jobs in South Ruimveldt. Detectives said the suspect was arrested after a retired cop heard him repeatedly calling the child’s name on Tuesday night in South Ruimveldt. The suspect was then taken to the East La Penitence Police Station where he confessed. Some residents said that the alleged killer had served time in prison, but could not recall the nature of the offence for which he was convicted. “He does be all over doing work for people. No one thought he would be capable of doing this,” a resident told this newspaper. A distraught Doysha Gittens, who witnessed her son’s postmortem, said that some individuals said that the suspect was of unsound mind. She queried whether police indeed had her son’s killer, while adding that she would “be happy” if police had the right man in custody. Shaquan Gittens’ bloated body, minus his trousers, was found in the trench around 15:35 hrs last Saturday, three days after he was reported missing. A strip of cloth was seen hanging from both hands when the body was pulled from the trench. The mother had explained that on April 01, last, she left her son in the care of his 15-year-old brother and went to work. She returned home later that day and did not see the lad, and was told that he had left to go on the streets and play. According to the woman, her neighbours had informed her that they had seen the youngster flying a kite. Mrs. Gittens said that after he failed to return, she went out into the community and searched for him since it was unusual for him to stay out late at nights. The following day, she made a missing person report and shared flyers.

 

Like you rightly says, there are more Junkies traversing the streets of Guyana and our Government pays no attention to same.

FM
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

That's some party's campaign funds going down, just like the campaign funds coming in on the plane.

Not "some party" it's only one party involved here and that's the Governing party.

cain

Not true, asj is not a PPP member, is dem who does have white nose.

 

You doan have to worry about DEA, dem already know more than you and I about who an who does hang out in de hanger at the Guyanese airport and so on..

cain
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