Narcotics police and soldiers seized 5,890 pounds (2,677 kg) of compressed ganja in eastern Kingston on 26 September 2006, then the decade's largest single find. Police linked it to the Jamaica-Haiti drug-for-guns trade, and no arrests were named in the opened sources.
Narcotics police and soldiers seized5,890 pounds of compressed ganja in
eastern Kingston on Tuesday 26 September 2006.[1]The Gleaner put the find
at 2,677 kilograms and called it the largest single ganja seizure of the
decade to that point.[2]
The seizure was the first of two massive finds that week. Three days later,
Operation Kingfish and narcotics agents seized a still larger 7,650-pound
haul at Bay Farm Road in Kingston, recorded in a separate report.[1][2]Police believed both busts were connected to the drug-for-guns trade between
Jamaica and Haiti.[1]
Neither opened account names anyone arrested in the Tuesday operation.[1][2]The Gleaner described the back-to-back finds as signs of an ongoing
crackdown on the marijuana trade, with narcotics officers watching the
ganja-growing parishes for the source of the weed.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No arrests were named in the opened sources for this seizure.
The Gleaner's original account, reprinted by a press archive whose site could not be opened, reportedly locates the seizure on Elletson Road, values it at $35 million and lists hash oil, compressors and a boat engine, so those details are left out here.
No photograph of the seizure with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
Police and the JDF Coast Guard seized over 2,000 pounds of ganja from a canoe near Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth on March 3. Four men on board were charged with possession, dealing, trafficking and export-related ganja offences.
The Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard intercepted a vessel southwest of Long Bay Beach, Manchester, seizing over 2,286 pounds of marijuana valued at about $45 million. Four people were detained and handed over with the drugs to the police narcotics division for processing.
Police intercepted two cars on the Pamphret main road in St Thomas on September 26, 2025, seizing 1,600 pounds of compressed ganja in 33 bags. Two men were arrested and charged with possession, dealing, export-preparation and trafficking offences.
Three men are being prosecuted over 1,890 pounds (about 857 kg) of compressed ganja that police said they were taking to a Jamaican port on 15 August 2025. Two were granted $1 million bail, the third stayed in lockup, and the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court set 6 January 2026 for case management.
