Around 10:30hrs on Sunday at the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, an 18-year-old inmate was found with cannabis stashed in his underwear. The inmate who is from Albouystown, is serving a sentence for the offence of robbery underarms.
Enquiries disclosed that on the aforementioned date and time, the young man was labouring in the prison farm, when a Prison Training Instructor (PTI) observed him acting in a suspicious manner.
As a result, the PTI conducted a search on the prisoner where two brownish plastic parcels were found in his underwear.
Commander for Regional Division 4’C’, Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram said the police were summoned and the said parcels handed over to a rank. The parcels were checked in the presence of the inmate and the PTI where a quantity of leaves, seeds and stems were found.
The cannabis was weighed and amounted to 92 grams.
Investigations are continuing.
