Taxi driver arrested in Port Kaituma with cocaine, ganja & ecstasy pills

A 47-year-old taxi driver was arrested on Tuesday after being found with a quantity of cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy pills.

According to the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), a party of ranks conducted an intelligence-led operation at Port Kaituma between 18:50h and 20:30h.

When ranks arrived at the taxi driver’s residence, who has since been identified as Marvin Pillay, a search was initiated.

“During the search, the ranks unearthed a brown cardboard box containing a black plastic bag.

Inside the bag were two transparent plastic bags containing a whitish, brick-like substance suspected to be cocaine, a quantity of cash, several zip-lock bags containing a quantity of blue pills, pink pills, and green pills,” the CCU noted.

A further search of the box unearthed a quantity of pinkish-reddish pills and transparent zip-lock bags containing whitish crystals.

Further checks were made inside the building, and the ranks found on a shelf a white plate containing a quantity of creamish rock substance suspected to be cocaine and a yellow plate containing leaves, seeds, and stems suspected of being cannabis.

The ranks also found Pillay’s National Identification (ID) card and other personal documents. The ranks seized the suspected narcotics and documents.

Pillay was told of the offence committed, cautioned, and then escorted to the Port Kaituma Police Station, where the suspected narcotics were weighed in his presence and amounted to: suspected cocaine 239.6 grams, 139 Methamphetamine pills which amounted to115.9 grams, 29 zip lock bags containing a creamish, crystals substance: 63.5 grams and the suspected cannabis weighed 4.4 grams.

In addition, four cellular phones with three Digicel sim cards, a TIN Certificate, Driver’s Licence, an ID, a Hire Car licence, and $42,790 in cash were found in a black handbag. Pillay was later placed in custody pending charges.