District constable charged over ganja at Horizon prison
District Constable Robert Campbell was charged with dealing in ganja and bringing prohibited articles into the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston. Supervisors caught him after a parcel fell from his pocket in the barrack room, and a later search of his knapsack found more suspected ganja, suspected tobacco, cash and other items.
🇯🇲 Horizon Adult Remand Centre, Spanish Town Road, Kingston · Jamaica
District Constable Robert Campbell, 25, from Point Hill in St Catherine was
charged with dealing in ganja and bringing prohibited articles into a
correctional centre.[1]Campbell was stationed at Detention and Courts.[1]He was charged on Thursday following a ruling by the Office of the Director of
Public Prosecutions, after a file on the case was prepared and submitted to it.[1]
Campbell was held with the items around 7:00 am on the previous Friday while in
the barrack room of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road in
Kingston.[1]He was changing his clothes and getting ready for work when a
small parcel fell from his pocket and he quickly stepped on it.[1]The
corporal supervising him became suspicious, retrieved the object, and it was
found to be vegetable matter resembling ganja.[1]
A search of his knapsack in his presence found several parcels of vegetable
matter resembling ganja, vegetable matter resembling tobacco, a USB cable,
$20,650 in cash, a pack of Rizzla and a lighter.[1]The policeman was taken
into custody after the search.[1]
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dealing in ganja; bringing prohibited articles into a correctional centre
No weight or plant count for the suspected ganja or tobacco-like matter was published.
The incident date is set to Thursday 27 February 2025, inferred from the 28 February 2025 publication date and the report that Campbell was charged on Thursday; the detention around 7:00 am on the previous Friday would then fall on 21 February 2025.
No court outcome, plea or trial date beyond the charge was reported.
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.
Police charged two Westmoreland men with possession, dealing and trafficking after FNID officers found cocaine and ganja in their car on Mandela Highway on March 4. The ganja quantity was not specified, so no cannabis weight is recorded, and the men are due before the St Catherine Parish Court on March 13.
According to Harm Reduction International, court cases for possessing or smoking cannabis fell by more than 90 per cent after the reform of April 2015, and criminal cases referred to the courts in 2016 were 25 per cent fewer than in 2014. In 2016 the government nearly doubled its budget for the national HIV response, from 2.83 to 5.17 million US dollars.
