The Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Monday afternoon confirmed that a quantity of cocaine with a street value of approximately $3.5 million was removed from the property of a suspected drug trafficker at Eccles, East Bank Demerara, Monday morning.
Along with the cocaine, which weighed 3.27 kg, CANU also found and removed a total of 27 9mm rounds, one .32 Taurus firearm along with one magazine and 25 matching .32 rounds.
Fifty-two-year-old Andrew Morgan, the brother of Peter Morgan – a deportee and convicted drug trafficker – was also arrested by CANU ranks.
The Unit said its Officers were acting on intelligence when they conducted the narcotics operation at Lot 142 Ixora Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
