{"version":1,"id":"tc","name":"Turks and Caicos Islands","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/tc/","count":2,"totals":{"reports":2,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":27,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":2,"raid":0,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2024-08-17","reports":[{"id":"turks-caicos-providenciales-2-8m-marijuana-2024","code":"CET-G0TETX","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/turks-caicos-providenciales-2-8m-marijuana-2024/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/G0TETX/","date":"2024-08-17","added_at":"2026-11-09T09:38:39.869026Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-15T03:51:35.000Z","country":"tc","country_name":"Turks and Caicos Islands","place":"Bird Rock and Jones Cay, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands","coordinates":[21.7807,-72.2537],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["raid","arrest"],"title":"Police seize $2.8m in marijuana from migrant boats in Turks and Caicos","summary":"Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force officers seized cannabis sativa worth an estimated US$2.83 million in two interceptions of migrant vessels at Bird Rock and Jones Cay on Providenciales on 16 and 17 August 2024. Fifty-six migrants were detained in the two cannabis-related landings, and police said the investigation was continuing.","status":"verified","figures":{"value":{"amount":2836592,"currency":"USD"}},"details":{"agencies":["Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force"],"agency_types":["police","border-guard"],"products":[{"product":"flower"}],"activity":["trafficking"],"setting":["port"],"case_stage":"investigation","date_precision":"exact","region":"Providenciales"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[2],"details.agency_types":[2],"details.case_stage":[2],"details.products":[2],"details.setting":[2],"figures.value":[2]},"tags":["turks-and-caicos","providenciales","boat-seizure","cannabis-sativa"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/million-dollar-drug-bust/","media_url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/assets/uploads/2024/08/Marijuana-find-1024x784.jpg","publisher":"Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force","caption":"Bags of cannabis sativa that police said were seized from migrant vessels landing on Providenciales. Photo: Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/million-dollar-drug-bust/","media_url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/assets/uploads/2024/08/Intercept-find-944x1024.jpg","publisher":"Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force","caption":"Cannabis sativa laid out after the Friday night interception of a migrant landing at Bird Rock. Photo: Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force"},{"kind":"photo","url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/million-dollar-drug-bust/","media_url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/assets/uploads/2024/08/Vessel-576x1024.jpg","publisher":"Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force","caption":"One of the migrant vessels found at Jones Cay on Saturday, 17 August 2024. Photo: Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["No weight in kilograms was published for either seizure; the amounts are street-value estimates, so no cannabis weight is recorded.","The two values, US$131,660 and US$2,704,932, are added to the reported total of more than US$2 million; the sources give no combined figure beyond that phrase.","NewslineTCI dates the Friday landing to 18 August, which conflicts with its own reference to Saturday as 17 August and with the police statement's 16 August; the police date is used.","No arrests, charges or court outcome for suspected smugglers were reported; the 56 people detained were migrants in the two cannabis-related landings, and it is not reported whether any were held over the drugs.","No cannabis weight, number of packages or vessel ownership was published, and the origin of the cannabis is unknown.","HaitiLibre does not say whether the boat stopped near West Caicos on 18 August carried cannabis; that landing is not counted in the report's cannabis figures.","The report's summary keeps the two-cannabis-landing count of 56 migrants; the 217 total covers all the interception attempts that weekend, not only the two drug seizures."],"sources":[{"title":"String of Haitian migrant landings in Turks & Caicos lead to $2 million marijuana busts","url":"https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article291178685.html","publisher":"Miami Herald","date":"2024-08-19","archived":null},{"title":"Million Dollar Drug Bust","url":"https://www.tcipolice.tc/million-dollar-drug-bust/","publisher":"Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force","date":"2024-08-19","archived":null},{"title":"$2M Marijuana Bust; 56 Migrants Held","url":"https://www.newslinetci.com/post/2m-marijuana-bust-56-migrants-held","publisher":"NewslineTCI","date":"2024-08-18","archived":null},{"title":"Haiti - Turks and Caicos : 217 Haitian migrants intercepted and significant seizure of marijuana","url":"https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-43025-haiti-turks-and-caicos-217-haitian-migrants-intercepted-and-significant-seizure-of-marijuana.html","publisher":"HaitiLibre","date":"2024-08-20","archived":null}]},{"id":"turks-caicos-north-west-point-27kg-marijuana-sloop","code":"CET-4QMBSW","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/turks-caicos-north-west-point-27kg-marijuana-sloop/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/4QMBSW/","date":"2023-08-29","added_at":"2026-11-14T05:28:46.552166Z","added_at_source":"recorded","updated_at":"2026-11-15T03:51:35.000Z","country":"tc","country_name":"Turks and Caicos Islands","place":"North West Point, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands","coordinates":[21.8229,-72.2135],"precision":"locality","type":"seizure","also":["raid","arrest"],"title":"27 kg of marijuana worth $500,000 seized from sloop off North West Point","summary":"Marine Unit officers and the TCI Customs Department recovered 27 kilograms of marijuana, valued by police at US$500,000, from an abandoned migrant sloop that ran aground off North West Point, Providenciales, on 29 and 30 August 2023. No one was arrested, as the vessel had no occupants when it was found, and investigations were continuing.","status":"verified","figures":{"kg_seized":27,"value":{"amount":500000,"currency":"USD"}},"details":{"agencies":["Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force Marine Unit","TCI Customs Department"],"agency_types":["police","customs","border-guard","military"],"products":[{"product":"flower","kg":27}],"activity":["smuggling","trafficking"],"setting":["port","border"],"case_stage":"investigation","period":{"start":"2023-08-29T00:00:00.000Z","end":"2023-08-30T00:00:00.000Z"},"date_precision":"exact","region":"Providenciales"},"data_sources":{"details.activity":[1],"details.agencies":[1],"details.agency_types":[1],"details.case_stage":[1],"details.period":[1],"details.products":[1],"details.setting":[1],"figures.kg_seized":[1],"figures.value":[1]},"tags":["turks-and-caicos","providenciales","marijuana","sloop","marine-unit"],"cover":null,"media":[{"kind":"photo","url":"https://suntci.com/half-million-dollars-worth-of-marijuana-found-on-illegal-sloop-p9694-129.htm","media_url":"https://suntci.com/11-09-2023-09-21-53-am-5376134.jpg","publisher":"Turks and Caicos SUN","caption":"Packages of marijuana seized from the illegal sloop off North West Point, published with the police and Customs account. Photo: Turks and Caicos SUN"}],"cfi_id":null,"created_by_model":"swancloud/muse-spark-1.3-contributor#xhigh","open_questions":["The 27 kilograms is the weight of cannabis found on board the vessel; the accounts do not say how the 52 packages retrieved from the sea were weighed, or whether that material was included in the figure.","The accounts say the packages contained marijuana but give no laboratory confirmation of the substance.","No arrests, charges or court outcome were reported; the accounts say only that investigations were continuing.","The origin of the vessel and the drugs was not reported, and the migrants who fled were not apprehended in these accounts.","Both opened accounts reproduce the same police and Customs statements, so no independent account of the seizure was found.","The 52 and 61 package counts come from the police statement, while the 27-kilogram weight comes from the Collector of Customs; how the two sets of figures relate is not explained."],"sources":[{"title":"Half million dollars worth of marijuana found on illegal sloop","url":"https://suntci.com/half-million-dollars-worth-of-marijuana-found-on-illegal-sloop-p9694-129.htm","publisher":"Turks and Caicos SUN","date":"2023-09-06","archived":null},{"title":"Half a Million in Marijuana Found on Haitian Sloops says TCI Police","url":"https://magneticmediatv.com/2023/09/half-a-million-in-marijuana-found-on-haitian-sloops-says-tci-police/","publisher":"Magnetic Media","date":"2023-09-11","archived":null}]}]}