A 44-year-old salesman of Church of God Road Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was on Thursday arrested for being in possession of 791 grams of suspected cannabis and 26 grams of methamphetamine.
According to Police, at about 17:30h at a stop and search operation conducted by ranks at the Itaballi checkpoint, the salesman and a porter, 20, of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) were asked to disembark a lorry, driven by the EBD resident.
Police conducted a search on a camouflage haversack belonging to the salesman and found a multi-colored hammock containing two parcels.
The parcels contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems suspected to be cannabis while a transparent plastic bag contained a cream-ish substance suspected to be methamphetamine.
The man admitted to ownership of the drugs and has been placed in police custody at the Bartica Police Station pending charges.
