The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) believes it has cracked a Nigerian alien and drug smuggling ring after arresting two Nigerian citizens and a woman on Monday night at a home at Ogle, East Coast Demerara.

Sources told Stabroek News that the two Nigerian men were apprehended while preparing one kilogramme of cocaine to be smuggled out of the country by the Guyanese woman.

The three were arrested and are assisting CANU officials in investigations.

According to sources, late last year a Nigerian alien and cocaine smuggling ring was busted in Suriname and it is suspected that some of the persons from that ring entered Guyana illegally. They have been using persons bearing Nigerian passports to smuggle cocaine out of the country, the sources say.

The CANU officers have been following the lead for a while and sources say they feel that they have cracked the ring.

And yesterday CANU officers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri busted a seventeen-year-old youth from Trinidad with two kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in potato balls.

The boy, who hails from Kitty and who is in custody, was booked on a North American flight bound for the USA.