Decade's largest ganja haul: 3,380 kg seized at Bay Farm Road
Operation Kingfish and narcotics police seized about 3,380 kg of compressed ganja packed in 170 boxes at a house on Bay Farm Road in Kingston, readied for export. Police called it the decade's largest single find and linked it to the Jamaica-Haiti drug-for-guns trade.
Heavily armed police and soldiers raided a house at 18 Bay Farm Road in Kingston at about 6
p.m. on 29 September 2006 and seized about 3,380 kg (7,436 pounds) of compressed, packaged
ganja from two houses on the premises.[1][2]The weed sat in 170 boxes and was being readied
for export.[1]Officers valued it at J$30.6 million on the Jamaican market and US$22.95
million in the United States.[1]
The occupant and his associates fled before the raid; one man, said to be the occupant’s
brother, was detained but had not been arrested or charged at press time.[1][2]Police also
found pharmaceutical items including Viagra on the premises.[1]Senior Superintendent Carlton
Williams called it an intelligence-led strike in an ongoing crackdown on the marijuana trade,
and detectives linked the bust to the drug-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti.[1][2]The find followed a 2,677 kg (5,890-pound) seizure in eastern Kingston three days earlier,
then described as the largest single find of the decade; the Bay Farm Road haul surpassed
it.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The Observer reports 7,650 pounds on the night while the later Gleaner gives 3,380 kg (7,436 pounds); the report uses the later metric figure.
The Observer values the haul at J$30.6 million locally and US$22.95 million in the United States while the Gleaner says about $53 million; the report uses the Observer's explicit Jamaican figure.
The Observer dates the raid with "last night" and "yesterday" in a 29 September article; the Gleaner dates it to Friday evening, and 29 September 2006 is the event date used here.
The man detained, said to be the occupant's brother, was explicitly not arrested or charged at press time; no name or later outcome is in the opened sources.
A separate 5,890-pound seizure in eastern Kingston three days earlier is a different event 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.
