Guyana police seize more than 70 pounds of cocaine

SOURCE: Caribbean Me­dia Cor­po­ra­tion (CMC)

Guyana po­lice Mon­day said they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of 72.1 pounds of co­caine, which was found last Fri­day, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion along the Five Miles-Itu­ni Trail, Up­per De­mer­ara Riv­er.

In a brief state­ment, the po­lice said that dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers ob­served a mo­tor pick­up trav­el­ling out of the trail. It said that up­on see­ing the po­lice, the dri­ver stopped the ve­hi­cle and fled in­to near­by bush­es, leav­ing the pick­up be­hind.