Two Guyanese detained in Suriname cocaine bust

by Ivan Cairo
Caribbean Net News Suriname Correspondent

Friday, May 20, 2005

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Police in Suriname have detained three suspects, a Surinamese national and two Guyanese in a cocaine bust. The main suspect, 36 years old Guyanese, Denzel Park, along with a Suriname national was arrested last Thursday while driving from the Nickerie district to the capital Paramaribo. 

Shortly before police made the arrest, Park illegally crossed the border from Guyana to Suriname where he had a meeting with a fellow countrywoman. 

Police sources tell Caribbean Net News that he subsequently continued his trip with the Surinamese man to the capital, but before reaching Paramaribo he made a stop in the Coronie district where again he met the Guyanese woman who handed him two bags containing 50 kilos of cocaine. Shortly after the handover police responded on a tip and nabbed the two men. 

The woman was arrested the next day, Friday, in Nickerie. Her car was found abandoned in Coronie. It is believed that Park brought the cocaine with him from Guyana and left it with the female suspect to deliver to him en route to the capital. The drugs were destroyed Saturday by police. 

The border between Guyana and Suriname is a very busy smuggling route for all kinds of contraband varying from food items, fodder, drugs and gold. In January police nabbed a gang which for some time had been smuggling gold from Guyana and exporting the precious metal legally out of Suriname.

In this round-up a high ranked police officer, two Guyanese and a licensed gold exporter were arrested. They were fined and subsequently released, since the offence was settled as an economic one.

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