Police in Guyana have detained two foreign nationals after a single-engine plane bearing what appeared to be United States registration markings, N5470Z, made an illegal landing at the Mahdia airstrip in Region 8 on Sunday.
Police said that bags bearing the marking “King Coca 30” packed with what they believed to be cocaine, were found strapped inside the aircraft.
In a statement late Sunday, Guyanese police said the cocaine and some marijuana were being weighed by anti-narcotics police at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters in the presence of a Colombian pilot, 42-year-old Rodrigues Estiven and Brazilian co-pilot 24-year Mateus Vinicius Alberto.
They said the marking, King Coca 30, on eight of the 10 bags of cocaine is similar to the King Coca-branded 973 blocks of cocaine that had been seized in South Africa last year from aboard a Panama-registered fishing vessel.
