54-year-old arrested after 71-pound hydroponic marijuana seizure in Nassau
Nassau police Drug Enforcement Unit officers searched a St. James Road residence off Kemp Road shortly after 3 p.m. on 5 November 2026 and arrested a 54-year-old man. They seized about 71.1 pounds (32.25 kg) of suspected hydroponic marijuana, which police valued at $142,000.
🇧🇸 St. James Road, off Kemp Road, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
A 54-year-old man was arrested after Drug Enforcement Unit officers searched a
residence on St. James Road, off Kemp Road, in Nassau.[1]
The search warrant was executed shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday 5 November
2026.[1]Officers searched the occupant and the premises and found suspected
hydroponic marijuana.[1]
The drugs weighed 71.1 pounds (about 32.25 kg), police estimated.[1]Police
valued the cannabis at about $142,000.[1]
The man remained in custody while investigations continued.[1]Bahamas Latest
reported that no further details about the suspect had been released and that
police had not said whether more arrests were expected.[1]
Eye Witness News reported the seizure of more than 71 pounds of marijuana worth
$142,000 in the same bust.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only the police's preliminary report is the basis; no independent account of the search was found.
The sources give no charge, and no court date or outcome was reported.
The man was not named and no other details about him were released.
The seizure was described as suspected hydroponic marijuana; no laboratory result was published.
The 71.1 pounds is the police estimate, converted here to about 32.25 kg; the $142,000 is the police street-value estimate in Bahamian dollars, whose currency the articles do not state.
The submitted Eye Witness News page carries only a video and headline, so the facts come from Bahamas Latest's account of the same police report.
No photo or video of the seizure itself was available on the cited pages; the Bahamas Latest illustration is a generic stock police image.
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