Police at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston arrested seven people during routine checks on 9 December 2013.[1] Personnel from the Canine Division and the Transnational Crimes and Narcotics Division made the seizures.[1] Police withheld the identities of those arrested until they are charged.[1]
About 10 o’clock yesterday morning members of the Transnational Crimes and Narcotics Division accosted and searched a man boarding a flight to Barbados.[1] His luggage had a false compartment with ganja weighing approximately 5.9 pounds.[1] The man and the female who accompanied him to the airport were taken into custody.[1] An hour later the team conducted a stop and search operation near the airport roundabout.[1] The driver of a white Isuzu Elf motor truck was signalled to stop and five boxes of yams containing ganja weighing approximately 129 pounds were found.[1] Three men were taken into custody and the motor truck was seized.[1] Later that afternoon officers attached to the Canine Division searched the luggage of a male who had checked in to board a flight during routine security checks in the baggage area.[1] Ganja amounting to 18.6 pounds was found and the male was taken into custody.[1] Within hours officers searched the luggage of another male checking in on a flight to Curacao and found ganja weighing about 2.8 pounds in a tin of cheese.[1] In total police seized approximately 156.4 pounds of ganja and a motor truck over a six-hour period on Monday.[2] The street value of the drug was estimated at J$782,000.[2]
The seizures ran from about 10:00 a.m. to about 2:30 p.m., with the third seizure about 12:20 p.m.[2] Police appealed to the public to comply with the laws and warned those involved in drug trafficking that they will be caught.[1]
