Ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Thursday arrested three men after they were found with a quantity of cannabis.
Reports are that at about 16:30hrs, police officers conducted a cordon and search exercise at Spliff Street, Church of God Road, Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
During the operation, a 34-year-old male of Middlewalk Buxton, ECD, was searched, and lawmen discovered 66 transparent ziplock bags containing a quantity of seeds, leaves, and stems suspected to be cannabis.
On the same day, police conducted another search on a 27-year-old man of ‘B’ Buxton, ECD, and unearthed 11 transparent ziplock bags containing a number of seeds, leaves, and stems suspected to be cannabis.
Further, a search conducted on a 35-year-old man of Buxton, ECD, found a transparent ziplock bag containing a quantity of seeds, leaves, and stems suspected to be cannabis.
Meanwhile, lawmen discovered a ziplock bag in a bush on the Southern side of Spliff Street Church of God Road, ECD, containing 262 grams of cannabis. The men were told of the offence committed and were arrested.