Anti-narcotics officers of the OCRTIS, France’s central office against illicit drug trafficking, and the GIPN police intervention group stopped a convoy of four vehicles between Sainte-Rose and the approaches to Deshaies in Guadeloupe.[1][2] The vehicles had just taken their cargo from a boat from the island of Saint Vincent.[1][2]

OCRTIS said the cannabis herb was packed in several bales totalling 435 kg.[1][2] Ten people were detained and placed in police custody at the Guadeloupe judicial police (DIPJ) headquarters.[1][2] After their custody they were brought before a judge in Fort-de-France, Martinique, placed under formal investigation and jailed.[1][2] France-Antilles reported that the ten members of the network were aged 25 to 41.[3] A pistol was also seized, France-Antilles reported.[3]

RCI later reported that four vehicles carrying nine men and two women were intercepted on 11 October 2016 as they drove at speed towards Deshaies, and that they were carrying 438 kg of cannabis.[4] That investigation also turned up mobile phones, GPS devices, bladed weapons, 3,000 euros and bloodstained clothing, according to RCI.[4] OCRTIS said the arrest of the ten traffickers by its Guadeloupe detachment had just ended the activity of a Saint Vincent network particularly active in the Caribbean.[1] Le Parisien reported the seizure belonged to a judicial investigation opened by the prosecutor of the Fort-de-France interregional specialised court (JIRS) after a series of drug seizures.[1]

At the end of January 2019, 21 people went on trial before the JIRS in Fort-de-France over the wider network known as the Wildting case.[4]