The Guyana Police Drive’s Narcotics Department and Regional Division Six performed two main eradication operations on Sunday within the Higher Berbice River, destroying greater than $409 million price of hashish and seizing two unlawful shotguns with ammunition.
The primary raid befell at Zion, Higher Berbice River, the place officers found a two-acre plot being ready for cultivation. Close by, a 30×20 ft. makeshift camp with dwelling and kitchen areas was uncovered. Contained in the camp, police discovered a drying part containing roughly 350 lbs of dried hashish, valued at over $142.8 million. Each the camp and the hashish have been destroyed by hearth.
Later that morning, between 5:00 a.m. and 10:20 a.m., officers launched a second operation at Kalkuni, Higher Berbice River. There, one other two-acre hashish farm was found, with roughly 3,000 vegetation starting from two to seven ft in peak. A camp of comparable dimension, full with a drying part, was additionally uncovered. Officers seized 650 lbs of dried hashish, together with two unlicensed twelve-gauge shotguns and 19 matching cartridges.
The weapons, which bore no seen serial numbers, have been submitted to the Ballistics Part for evaluation. Hashish vegetation, dried marijuana, and the camps at each websites have been destroyed on the scene.
Police estimate the worth of the seized narcotics from the Kalkuni raid alone to be greater than $266 million, bringing the whole worth of hashish destroyed in each operations to $409,249,200.
The Guyana Police Drive reported that each workouts have been carried out with out incident, marking a major blow to the unlawful drug commerce within the Berbice River area.
