Big ganja bust
Police, soldiers seize compressed marijuana in Cockpit, Old Harbour Bay |
Observer Reporter
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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COMPRESSED ganja weighing almost 3,000 pounds, which the police believe was destined for Haiti, was seized during joint police/military operations in Clarendon and St Catherine.
Three men arrested in connection with the seizures were yesterday interrogated by narcotics agents. However, their names were withheld by investigators, pending charges.
The police said recently that they had uncovered a drugs for guns operation between Jamaica and neighbouring Haiti.
In the Clarendon operation, 1,062 pounds of the weed was seized Sunday when more than 100 officers from the Jamaica Constabulary Force and Jamaica Defence Force carried out an operation at Cockpit in Salt River, where they allegedly found the drugs stacked in an abandoned building in the rural district. One man was arrested in that operation.
The larger find of 1,868 pounds of ganja was seized by the police and soldiers who continued their operation between Monday night and 1:00 yesterday morning in the St Catherine fishing village of Old Harbour Bay.
Yesterday, Inspector Steve Brown, spokesman for Operation Kingfish - the police task force that tracks down gangsters and drug traffickers - said between Monday night and yesterday morning, the police, assisted by the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard, seized 44 bags of compressed ganja, weighing about 1,868 pounds, that was found on an abandoned boat in a swampy area.
The drug was taken to shore by the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard.
"Two persons, including the driver of the truck, which reportedly transported the drug from Clarendon to Old Harbour Bay, have been taken into custody. The truck has been seized by the police," the police said in a statement yesterday.
"Those arrested have not yet been charged. They are being interrogated, so we will not release their names because our aim is to nab the mastermind behind all this," Brown told the Observer earlier in the day yesterday.
In addition to the Operation Kingfish and the army, the operation also included officers from the Special Anti Crime Task Force and Narcotics Division.
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