A fifty-six-year-old Taxi driver is now in Police custody after he was busted with 64lbs of suspected cannabis during a roadblock on March 13th, 2023 at about 06:30 hrs.
According to inquiries, on the aforementioned time and date, a party of police was conducting a roadblock exercise on the Soesdyke Linden Highway in the vicinity of the Highway Patrol Base when they stopped a silver Toyota Premio motor car # PAC 1266 which was being driven by Linden Solomon, of Blueberry Hill, Linden.
As a result, the driver was informed by ranks that they would like to conduct a search on the said motor vehicle and he complied. Upon doing so the ranks found one black plastic bag containing three large transparent parcels which contained a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems, another black plastic bag containing 4 large transparent parcels containing a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems, and one grey duffle bag containing 3 large transparent parcels containing a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems all suspected to be cannabis.
As such, the suspect was then told of the offence committed where he was arrested and then escorted to the Timehri Police Station where the suspected cannabis was weighed in his presence and it amounted to 64 lbs. Thereafter, the suspect was escorted to the Regional Police Divisional Headquarters 4B for further investigations to be carried out
