151 kg of cannabis resin seized from a container at a Martinique moving firm
Officers of France's Ofast anti-narcotics office searched a moving company in Martinique and found 151 kilos of cannabis resin hidden in household appliances inside a container sent from Le Havre. No one came to claim the load, and an investigation was opened to find those who ordered it.
🇫🇷 Pointe des Grives, Fort-de-France, Martinique · France
Ofast investigators searched a well-established moving company in Martinique.[1]The search took place on the morning of Wednesday 16 August 2023.[1]Inside a container shipped from the port of Le Havre by CMA-CGM that had spent
several days at Pointe des Grives, officers found 151 kilos of cannabis resin.[1]The resin was hidden inside household appliances.[1]
Officers watching transatlantic freight traffic had been alerted by suspicious
details about the cargo.[1]After a discreet check confirmed a large quantity
of drugs was inside, police let the container travel on to the forwarder, which
had no part in the illicit shipment.[1]No one came to the moving firm to
claim the appliances.[1]Ofast seized the drugs for destruction and opened an
investigation to trace those who ordered the shipment.[1]
Six days earlier, on 10 August, customs had found 610 kilos of cannabis resin in
a container at the port of Fort-de-France.[1][2]In this case the traffickers
used the rip-off method, forcing the container to insert the drugs at the last
moment for accomplices to recover in transit.[1][2]A later RCI dossier confirms
that Ofast found 151 kilos of cannabis resin hidden in household appliances in a
container from Le Havre using the rip-off method.[3]
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RCIrci.fmFRUne nouvelle saisie de 151 kilos de résine de cannabis en Martinique
RCIrci.fmFRUne saisie de 610 kilos de résine de cannabis sur le port de Fort-de-France
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No suspects, arrests or charges were reported; the article says only that an investigation was opened to trace those who ordered the shipment.
The article gives no street value for the 151 kilos of resin.
The article does not name the commune where the moving company's premises are located; the container had been parked at the Pointe des Grives terminal.
The report does not say how the resin was packed or how many packages were found inside the appliances.
The 610 kilos of resin found by customs at the port of Fort-de-France on 10 August 2023 is a separate seizure and is excluded from this report's figures.
No usable photograph of the seizure was available; the page's images are a generic placeholder and unrelated sidebar thumbnails.
Both opened sources are RCI reporting, including a later RCI dossier by the same author.
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