Ganja seized at Berth Five in Newport West is weighed at the Narcotics headquarters in Kingston.

GANJA neatly wrapped in brown masking tape, covered with mesh wire and moulded in concrete tabletops and pedestals was yesterday detected by sniffer dogs at Berth Five in Newport West.

The weed, weighing 160 pounds, was the second find on the wharf since Friday by members of the Contraband Enforcement Team (CET). On Friday, 620 pounds of ganja was also discovered during a routine check at the APM Terminal at Berth 11, in a 20-foot container. No arrests have been made in either seizure.

A police officer removes compressed ganja from concrete tabletops yesterday at the Narcotics headquarters on Spanish Town Road in Kingston. (Photo: John Nicholson)

Both shipments were destined for the Caribbean island of St Marteen, addressed to a restaurant in Dorleans.

Combined, the weed has a street value of more than $120 million.

"It was through a routine check that these drugs were netted. Sniffer dogs two and seven, found this ganja for us," an officer from the CET told the Observer yesterday.

The address to which the ganja was destined was written on all the board containers in which the cemented moulds were packaged.

The CET is a joint police/customs unit set up to curtail the transportation of illegal goods entering and leaving the nation's ports of entry.

Weapons, drugs and firecrackers are sometimes recovered through the efforts of the CET.

The Narcotics police yesterday praised the efforts of the CET for yesterday's find.

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