 | A New York-bound 19-year old woman, who excreted 44 pellets after she was intercepted at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport, was among four persons arrested by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). Police said the woman was an outgoing passenger on a flight destined for JFK International Airport. She was suspected to have swallowed cocaine pellets and was arrested and escorted to a city Hospital. |  Another 279 cocaine filled pellets were later seized. Three were arrested and two remain at large. |
 | In 2015 hairdresser Shureen Giddings was intercepted shortly after arriving at the John F. Kennedy Airport on a flight from Guyana, and subsequently excreted 105 pellets. Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit say she “set a local record for swallowing such a large number of pellets”. Late last year 38-year-old, Julius Fidel Watkins smuggled more than 2 pounds of cocaine in pellets. He was sentenced to four years in jail and fined. |  |
