One held over an unlicensed two-acre ganja farm in Annotto Bay
St Mary police raided a premises in Annotto Bay on 21 September 2025 after intelligence tips, seizing vegetable matter resembling marijuana and finding an unlicensed two-acre ganja farm; one person was detained and another was being sought.
St Mary police say they acted on intelligence and carried out a snap raid at a
premises in Annotto Bay on Sunday 21 September 2025.[1][2]They seized a large
quantity of vegetable matter resembling marijuana and found an unlicensed ganja farm
covering about two acres.[1][2]
One person was taken into custody and another was being sought for questioning.[1][2]Photographs released by the division show officers among uprooted plants and
police vehicles at the site.[1]Police said unlicensed cultivation helps fund
organised crime, including guns-for-drugs networks that undermine local security.[1][2]McKoy’s News reported that investigations were continuing.[2]
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The St James Parish Court fined 76-year-old Washington Hylton $17,000 after eight ounces of ganja were found in his luggage at Sangster International Airport as he prepared to leave for London. He pleaded guilty to possession and attempting to export the cannabis.
Jamaican police arrested two men and a woman during a six-hour series of raids in Highlight View and Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, seizing marijuana worth about $500,000 and what they called an assortment of offensive weapons. The operation targeted suspected extortionists and gang members in the illicit drugs-for-guns trade.
Members of Operation Kingfish searched several premises on West Street in downtown Kingston on the morning of 20 November 2004 and seized about 76 kg of ganja in plastic bags and barrels, along with J$57,000 in cash. A man and a woman were detained.
Two days of police raids in Salt Spring and Irwin Heights, St James, left 19-year-old Roger Haughton dead, four men arrested and four firearms, about 150 rounds of ammunition, 192 parcels of marijuana and 15 gallons of hash oil seized in February 2003.
