Day: January 9, 2011

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Soesdyke –
The police conducted a drug eradication operation at Swan, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, yesterday.
A field of about one acre in size with marijuana plants between four feet and eight feet in height, along with a nursery containing over 500 seedlings were found and destroyed.
The ranks also searched three houses during which an unlicensed 12 gauge single barrel shotgun with two matching cartridges and 44.5 kilograms of dried cannabis sativa (marijuana) were found.

Three men and two females have been arrested and are in police custody assisting with the investigations.

 

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Foulis, Enmore East Coast Demerara- An alcoholic from 3rd street Foulis in Enmore died yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital after he was pelted some 10 yards when he came into contact with the driver of a pickup. The man who is well known in the village as Duckbar, was reportedly heavily intoxicated and came in the path of the driver while on the railway embankment road. The man ended up with his hands and feet behind his back barely breathing. He was rushed to the hospital with both his hands and feet broken, succumbing hours later.

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