10 lb of cannabis worth $60,000 seized in Antigua airport storage room
Customs and police officers found ten pounds (about 4.5 kg) of cannabis in nine vacuum-sealed packages in a cardboard box during a search of a storage room at V.C. Bird International Airport on 30 August 2024. The Observer put the street value at $60,000, and the packages were taken to the police station while investigations continued.
🇦🇬 V.C. Bird International Airport storage room, St John's, Antigua · Antigua and Barbuda
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Arrested
0
Cannabis
4.54 kg
Agencies
Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda, Customs and Excise Division
Customs and police officers seized ten pounds of cannabis during a joint drug
operation at V.C. Bird International Airport on Friday 30 August 2024.[1]Nine
vacuum-sealed packages of the substance were found inside a cardboard box during
the search of a storage room.[1]
The ten pounds is about 4.54 kg of cannabis.[1]The Observer put the street
value of the cannabis at $60,000.[1]The packages were taken to the police
station while further investigation continued.[1]
Antigua News published the same account of the airport seizure on 31 August.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
0
Cannabis
4.54 kg
Value (official estimate)
XCD 60,000
Agencies
Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda; Customs and Excise Division
The article gives only 'Friday' for the seizure; 30 August 2024, the Friday before the 31 August publication, is used as the incident date.
The value is given as $60,000 without stating whether this means Eastern Caribbean or US dollars; the eastern Caribbean dollar is used, as in other Antigua reports.
The weight is given only in pounds (10 lb, about 4.54 kg), and the substance is described only as cannabis, without a stated product form or laboratory confirmation.
Antigua News reproduces the Observer's account, so the reports are not independent.
No arrests were reported and nothing on the shipment's origin, consignee or intended destination was published.
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.
