Another Police Officer has found himself on the wrong side of the law in connection with illegal possession of cocaine.He is 50-year old Gregory Lette, attached to the St Paul¹s Police Station.

Lette was one of four persons arrested following weeks of extensive investigation into a reported quantity of drugs that is believed to have washed ashore in the St David¹s area.

The other persons charged in connection with the offence are 47-year old Krishna Jaggarnaught, a baker by profession, 22-year old Construction worker, Aaron Samuel, and Cecil Joseph, a 42-year old businessman of Petite Bacaye, St David¹s.

Jaggarnaught, Samuel and Lette are residents of Dudmar, St David¹s. All four suspects have been charged with the offence of Possession of a Controlled Drug, Trafficking of a Controlled Drug, Handling of a Controlled Drug and Money Laundering.

Police officials have said that the lawmen have recovered 6 lbs 14 ozs of cocaine on some lands belonging to Lette. The drugs have a street value of $312,000.00.

Jaggarnaught told GRENADA TODAY that they had discovered some 25 kilos of cocaine last month and he reported the matter to the Drug Squad Unit of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF). He said that a party of twelve police officers including one female later visited him and demanded that he hand over the drugs.
He said that he told them that he did not have any but they refused to believe him.

According to the suspect, the officers took him away from his home to the Bacolet Beach and reigned blows on him. He reportedly suffered serious injuries to both feet causing him to depend on crutches to move around.

Well-placed sources told this newspaper that greed for money among the men resulted in the police apprehending them.

A source close to the Drug World hinted that the drugs might have been deposited in the area by Venezuelans who are major players in the illegal drug trade in the Eastern Caribbean.