Other suspect being grilled on timber cocaine shipment
The deportee who it is believed mobilized the cocaine that was inserted into the dividers of cartons of pepper sauce turned himself into the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday and was intensely questioned.
Thus far, CANU has questioned the key players in the organization that smuggled 376 kilos of cocaine in the cartons. One shipment was busted on December 8 in New Brunswick, Canada and the other was nabbed on December 24 in St Croix, the US Virgin Islands after Canadian authorities tipped off the US DEA.
CANU sources say the deportee who turned himself in yesterday is believed to be the person who sourced the cocaine from suppliers. He was intensely questioned and let go after he denied details that were put to him. The sources say he was reluctant to leave CANU. As the organizer of the cocaine, sources say, he is the one most at risk from vengeful suppliers west of Guyana and may have no choice but to help the investigation as much as he could.
Aside from the deportee, CANU on Monday also questioned his business associate who he runs a shop with. The deportee
