Charges expected to be laid in Piarco cocaine bust

CHARGES are expected to be laid in connection with Wednesday’s multi- million dollar narcotics seizure at the Piarco International Airport, police sources told Newsday yesterday.

Several workers of the Piarco Air Services and other people continued to be questioned by members of the Organised Crime and Narcotic Unit (OCNU) up to late  yesterday evening. The 56 kilogrammes of cocaine was found Wednesday morning in mail bags during a random search by members of the OCNU and Customs Interdiction Unit. According to police, some of the cocaine, which carries a street value of $10,080,000, was in envelopes, while some was in parcels wrapped with tape. They were then placed in mail bags and at the time of the discovery, police said they were already packed on trolleys to be loaded on various planes destined for the United Kingdom and the United States. However, a release yesterday from the Trinidad and Tobago Postal Corporation (TTPOST) said that the multi-million dollar cocaine originated in Holland.