Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on 27 February and 3 March 2014.[1] Forty-eight-year-old Gilbert Cousins of Hamstead in St Catherine was arrested on 27 February 2014 after attempting to leave Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston for Curacao with 2.86 pounds of ganja he had ingested.[1]

Police reported that the 2.86 pounds, about 1.30 kg, was ganja Cousins had ingested.[1] On the same day, 24-year-old Kemar Taylor of 19 Miles, Sandy Bay in Clarendon was arrested after arriving at the airport on a flight from Curacao.[1] After being interviewed by the TCND, Taylor was taken to Kingston Public Hospital where Taylor expelled 32 pellets containing cocaine weighing half-a-pound.[1]

On 3 March detectives took three men into custody after they attempted to enter the island with cocaine.[1] The three men had arrived on a flight that originated in Curacao and expelled a total of 174 cocaine pellets weighing approximately 3.47 pounds at the hospital.[1] Police said all the accused individuals would be placed before the Half Way Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court the next week.[1]

Stabroek News republished the same Jamaica Observer account of Cousins attempting to leave the Norman Manley International Airport headed for Curacao with ingested ganja.[2]