🇰🇾 Cayman Islands
RSS28 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 54
- Plants destroyed
- 42
- Cannabis seized
- 2.6077 t
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 2
- Raid · 1
- Arrest · 8
- Prosecution · 9
- Sentence · 8
Reports
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20262 reports
Two charged after 505 lb of ganja seized from boat off Grand Cayman
Coast Guard officers intercepted a boat off Grand Cayman's south coast on 29 May 2026 and found 505 pounds of ganja, 10 kilograms of cocaine and an unlicensed firearm. Two men aged 44 and 22 were charged on 14 July and remanded in custody.
Arrested 2Cannabis 229.06 kg
CBC seized 30 lb of ganja from imported shipment, three arrested
Customs and Border Control officers found over 30 pounds (about 13.6 kg) of ganja in packages concealed in a shipment of imported goods on Grand Cayman. Three people were arrested, and the service said the investigation remains active.
Arrested 3Cannabis 13.6 kg
20251 report
Northward officer acquitted over 55 g ganja smuggling case
Senior HMP Northward officer Derron Watson was arrested in February 2024 accused of smuggling ganja into the prison and was charged with misconduct and drug supply. He pleaded not guilty and in May 2025 a Grand Court jury acquitted him after he said armed men coerced him into carrying 55 grams of ganja.
Arrested 1Charged 1Acquitted 1Cannabis 55 g
20242 reports
Cayman DPP to remake decision on 2019 clinic cannabis raid
Cayman's Director of Public Prosecutions agreed in October 2024 to remake the decision not to charge officials over the 2019 raid on the licensed Doctors Express clinic in George Town. A judge had ruled the seizure of cannabis products unlawful in 2021, and the clinic's judicial-review challenge was left academic pending the fresh charging decision.
Three charged after 450 lb of ganja found at George Town apartments
Police arrested three men on 26 March 2024 after finding about 450 pounds of ganja at apartments near Seymour Drive in George Town's industrial area. All three were charged with possession of ganja with intent to supply and bailed to return to court; the 57-year-old George Town man also faces a criminal-property charge over seized cash.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 204.12 kg
20232 reports
Gigi Hadid and friend fined over Cayman cannabis importation
American model Gigi Hadid, 28, and Leah McCarthy were arrested after their luggage was searched on arrival by private jet in the Cayman Islands on 10 July 2023. They pleaded guilty in the summary court two days later, were fined 1,000 Cayman Islands dollars and had no conviction recorded.
Arrested 2Charged 2Fine KYD 1,000
Ex-customs officer jailed 9 months for smuggling ganja through Cayman airport
Former Customs and Border Control officer Edree Fisher was sentenced on 18 January 2023 to 18 months for conspiring to import ganja through Owen Roberts International Airport, half of it suspended, leaving nine months to serve. She was charged over 6.48 pounds found on a fifth smuggling attempt, and the judge said she abused her position to steer the drugs through customs.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison 9 months, half of an 18-month term suspended
20222 reports
Four charged after over 300 lb ganja seized in Bodden Town
Police searched three premises in Bodden Town on 9 August 2022 and seized over 300 pounds of ganja with utensils and cash, arresting five local people. Three men were charged with possession and intent to supply and a fourth with possession, and all four appeared in court on 12 August while a woman was bailed.
Arrested 5Charged 4Cannabis 136.08 kg
Canadian woman jailed 18 months for 18 lb ganja in airport suitcase
Toni Lee Danso, a Canadian visitor, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to importing 18 pounds of ganja through Owen Roberts International Airport. Customs and Border Control officers found 18 heat-sealed packages hidden under a false bottom in her suitcase after she arrived from Toronto on 10 February 2022.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 8.16 kgPrison 18 months
20213 reports
Cayman DPP legal executive tried over hiding son’s ganja file
Evita Ann Dixon, a legal executive at the Cayman Islands Director of Public Prosecutions, went on trial in June 2021 charged with breach of trust for allegedly hiding and altering the file on her son’s ganja possession case so he would not be charged. She denied it, saying she had been bullied and victimised at the office for being Caymanian.
Arrested 1Charged 1Prison officer admits smuggling 15.4 oz of ganja into Northward jail
Rudolph Rambaran, a 39-year-old prison officer at HMP Northward, Grand Cayman, pleaded guilty to smuggling contraband and two counts of ganja possession after officers found 9.13 ounces on him and 6.29 ounces in his car in June 2021. He was due to be sentenced on 7 March 2022.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 437 g
2 arrested in North Side ganja raid on Grand Cayman
Police raided a property on Further Road in North Side, Grand Cayman, on 9 February 2021 and arrested a 34-year-old woman from West Bay and a 58-year-old man from North Side. Officers seized bags of suspected ganja and ganja plants, and said the matter remained under investigation.
Arrested 2
20202 reports
3 Jamaicans charged after 980lb ganja canoe caught off West Bay
A police helicopter spotted a canoe off North West Point in West Bay, Grand Cayman, early on 24 September 2020, and the Cayman Islands Coast Guard intercepted it after three Jamaican men were seen throwing packages overboard. Officers recovered 42 packages weighing 980lbs of ganja, and the three men, aged 56, 44 and 31, were charged two days later with importation of ganja and illegal landing.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 444.52 kg
Jamaican charged after ganja and two guns found with canoe at Spotts Beach
Police found a Jamaican-style canoe, packages of suspected ganja and two handguns with live ammunition at Spotts Beach, Grand Cayman, early on 21 May 2020. A 46-year-old Jamaican man was arrested that morning, charged two days later over the importation and supply of ganja, the firearms and his illegal landing, and remanded in custody.
Arrested 1Charged 1
Two Jamaicans charged over 1,000 lb ganja canoe caught east of Grand Cayman
Police found two Jamaican men, aged 33 and 59, aboard a drug canoe drifting about 50 miles east of Grand Cayman on 25 July 2019 and seized roughly 1,000 pounds of ganja valued at over CI$1 million. Rovan Johnson and Albert Campbell were charged with possession of ganja intended for importation and remanded in custody until 19 August.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 469.02 kg
Two Jamaicans jailed 28 and 30 months for 810 lb Cayman ganja haul
Xavier Shane Watson and Malson Campbell were jailed for 30 and 28 months after pleading guilty to importing 810 pounds of ganja plus cannabis oil and resin by boat off Grand Cayman. Police intercepted the vessel 11.5 nautical miles out on 18 March 2019 and valued the ganja at CI$939,000.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 368.36 kgPrison 30 months (Xavier Shane Watson) and 28 months (Malson Campbell)Three men arrested in 1:30am ganja stop off Shedden Road
Police in George Town arrested three men at a parking lot off Shedden Road shortly after 1:30am on 3 June 2019, after smelling ganja and finding small portions on two of them and several packets in their car. The car's owner, 35 and from East End, was held on suspicion of possession with intent to supply, and two West Bay men aged 34 and 21 on suspicion of possession and consumption.
Arrested 3
Four men arrested after over 400 lb of suspected ganja found in George Town
Police arrested four men in George Town, Grand Cayman, on 14 February 2019 after a speeding car fled officers and police found bags containing suspected ganja estimated at over 400 pounds. The men were held on suspicion of being concerned in importation, and police said investigations continued.
Arrested 4Cannabis 181.44 kg
U.S. airline ramp agent jailed 6 months for importing 6 oz of ganja to Cayman
Garfield Ainsley Spence, 24, was sentenced to six months in prison on Grand Cayman on 15 January 2019 after pleading guilty to importing six ounces of ganja into the Cayman Islands. A customs officer smelled the drug on him at the airport in October 2018 and found it in a heat-sealed bag in his backpack.
Charged 1Cannabis 170 gPrison 6 months
20187 reports
Man arrested at Cayman airport with 9 lb of ganja
Customs officers arrested a 34-year-old Caymanian man at Owen Roberts International Airport on 9 September 2018 after finding 9 pounds of ganja in his luggage on a flight from Miami. He was also suspected of trying to bribe an officer, and a search of his house found drug paraphernalia.
Arrested 1Cannabis 4.08 kg
Northward inmate gets 30 months for 0.38 kg ganja
Northward Prison inmate Randy James Parchment was sentenced to 30 months for possessing 0.38 kg of ganja with intent to supply after collecting a package in a hospital bathroom. The court set a three-year starting point, added time for aggravating factors, then discounted for his guilty plea and totality with his firearms term.
Charged 1Cannabis 380 gPrison 30 monthsThree charged over 35.66 kg ganja canoe import to Cayman
Three men appeared in Summary Court on 22 May 2018 charged with conspiracy to import 35.66 kilograms (77.18 pounds) of ganja into the Cayman Islands in July 2016. The charges followed a July 2016 police operation in which three men were arrested after a canoe came ashore in Prospect.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 35.66 kg
Three jailed over 438 lb ganja landing at South Sound
On 26 March 2018, Magistrate Valdis Foldats sentenced three Jamaican men to prison terms of 30, 33 and 36 months after they pleaded guilty to importing 438 pounds (about 198.67 kg) of ganja. Police arrested them after seeing them unload packages from a canoe onto the South Sound shore in September 2017; the ganja was ordered destroyed and the canoe forfeited.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 198.67 kgPrison 30, 33 and 36 monthsThree arrested on ganja canoe off South Sound, Grand Cayman
Royal Cayman Islands Police intercepted a canoe off South Sound, Grand Cayman, late on 14 March 2018 and arrested three Jamaican men aboard. Officers recovered several bags of ganja from surrounding waters plus a revolver with live ammunition.
Arrested 3
Ganja grower who had 42 plants gets suspended six-month sentence
Michael John Ramos, 37, was sentenced in the Cayman Islands to six months in prison, suspended for two years, after admitting he cultivated 42 ganja plants at a premises in Prospect, Grand Cayman. He had been charged in 2017 with cultivation, possession with intent to supply, simple possession and consumption, and the court ordered the plants forfeited and destroyed.
Charged 1Plants destroyed 42Prison 6 months, suspended for two yearsTwo charged after 692 lb ganja seized from canoe off West Bay
The Joint Marine Unit intercepted a canoe off West Bay, Grand Cayman, on 25 January 2018 and seized 692 pounds of ganja. Two men were charged with importing the ganja and appeared in Summary Court, while three other men arrested in Cayman Brac faced illegal-landing charges.
Arrested 5Charged 5Cannabis 313.89 kg
20131 report
Two Northward prison inmates charged with ganja possession
Two men already serving long sentences at Northward Prison in Grand Cayman were brought to Summary Court on separate charges of possessing ganja inside the prison. Robert Lewis Terry, serving nine years for a firearms offence, and Trevino Bodden, serving two life terms, said they did not know the charges, which name no quantities, and their cases were adjourned to 12 February.
20121 report
One 32-year-old man arrested in Spotts-Newlands ganja operation
Police arrested a 32-year-old man during a ganja operation in Spotts-Newlands, Grand Cayman, on 14 August 2012. The RCIPS said he was arrested for cultivation and possession of ganja and suspected consumption of a controlled drug; he was released on police bail that day.
Arrested 1
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