114 lb of cannabis worth $684,000 found in Antigua airport cargo shed
Police and customs officers searching the Cargo Transit Shed at V. C. Bird International Airport found 114 packages of cannabis weighing 114 pounds (about 51.7 kg) and valued at $684,000. The Observer called it the third cannabis seizure by the two agencies in 72 hours, after finds at the Intransit Cargo Shed and the General Post Office, and no arrests had been made.
🇦🇬 V. C. Bird International Airport Cargo Transit Shed, St John's, Antigua · Antigua and Barbuda
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Arrested
0
Cannabis
51.71 kg
Agencies
Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda, Customs and Excise Division
Police and customs officers searching the Cargo Transit Shed at V. C. Bird
International Airport found two E-containers and a cardboard box holding 114
packages of cannabis.[1]The cannabis weighed 114 pounds, about 51.7 kg, and
was valued at $684,000.[1]The Observer reported that it was the third
cannabis seizure by the two law-enforcement agencies within 72 hours.[1]No
arrest had been made in that seizure or in the other two.[1]
Two days earlier, on Tuesday 21 February, police and customs found a cardboard
box with five packages of cannabis, weighing five pounds and valued at $30,000,
at the airport’s Intransit Cargo Shed.[2]On Monday 20 February, twelve
vacuum-sealed packages of cannabis were found hidden in two cardboard boxes at
the General Post Office.[2]The Observer said the three seizures that week
together came to 131 pounds of cannabis with an estimated value of $786,000.[1]
Antigua News Room published the same account of the cargo-shed search on the
same day.[3]Antigua News also carried the same account of the airport
seizure.[4]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
0
Cannabis
51.71 kg
Value (official estimate)
XCD 684,000
Agencies
Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda; Customs and Excise Division
The article gives no separate date for the Wednesday search; 22 February 2023 is inferred as the Wednesday before the 23 February publication.
The value is given as $684,000 without stating whether this means Eastern Caribbean or US dollars; it is recorded as Eastern Caribbean dollars, as in other Antigua reports.
The weight is given only in pounds (114 lb, about 51.71 kg), and the substance is described only as cannabis, without a stated product form or laboratory confirmation.
Antigua News Room and Antigua News repeat the Observer's wording, so the account rests on a single original source.
No arrests were reported and nothing on the consignee, origin or intended destination of the shipment was published.
The same article's weekly total of 131 pounds and value of $786,000 combine three separate seizures and are reported as context, not as this event's figures.
Antigua police and Customs seized 13 packages of cannabis weighing about 13 pounds and valued at EC$78,000 from two boxes at the LIAT Cargo Shed on 5 March 2026. No arrests were made, and investigators are working to trace the shipment's origin and destination.
Police and customs officers found six vacuum-sealed packages of cannabis weighing 12 pounds in a cardboard box during a routine search of the Customs Cargo Shed at V.C. Bird International Airport in Antigua. Police valued the haul at about $72,000 and said investigations were ongoing; no arrest was reported.
Police and Customs found 60 vacuum-sealed packages of cannabis weighing 60 pounds (about 27.2 kg) in a suitcase at V.C. Bird International Airport on 17 December 2024. The cannabis was valued at $480,000 and taken to the police station for investigation.
Police and Customs found six boxes holding 116 vacuum-sealed cannabis packages in the V.C. Bird cargo shed on 22 October 2024, a seizure worth over half a million dollars. No arrests were reported.
