NARCOTICS police yesterday seized more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana in separate incidents, and arrested two men during one of the seizures.

The drug was valued at about US$9 million or J$612 million.

In the first incident, the police said they went to Summit Road in Morant Bay, St Thomas where they searched premises and found 1,048 pounds of compressed ganja. No one was arrested in that incident.

In the second, police in Kingston arrested two men, said to be residents of Manchester, after they broke the seals of a 40-foot container which was detained last Wednesday at Second Street in Newport West.

According to Sergeant Jubert Llewelyn of the Constabulary Communication Network, the flooring of the container, named ‘Reefer’, was raised and 927 pounds of compressed ganja found.

The two men who were found in the vicinity of the container were yesterday being questioned by narcotics detectives.

The police say they believe the men were employed by drug dealers to load the container, which had a shipment of yellow yams destined for the United Kingdom.