OPERATION Kingfish is reporting much success for the month of January, with the recovery of eight firearms, 501 lbs of compressed ganja and the arrest of 13 persons on charges of murder, possession of firearms and ammunition, possession of drugs, extortion and fraud.

Ministry of National Security, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, in giving details in a report last week, said Kingfish, with the help of the police and the Jamaica Defence Force, had also made a significant dent in the guns-for-drugs trade between Jamaica and Haiti and that as a result of this success there had been a reduction in the number of boats traversing the Jamaica-Haiti corridor.

For January, he said Kingfish received 51 actionable calls, from which 56 operations were mounted.

These operations also resulted in the seizure of 15 lbs of cocaine, one boat, eight vehicles of assorted make and models, four drums of fuel and four boat engines, the minister said.

MacMillan said that last year, Kingfish confiscated approximately 25,000 pounds of compressed ganja, destroyed over 15 hectares of ganja plants in fields across the island and seized five go-fast boats with engines intact.