Man charged over 12.1 lb of marijuana at Kingston airport
Police at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston seized 12.1 pounds (about 5.49 kg) of marijuana from a passenger's luggage on 9 May 2013 and charged Orville McCatty with possession and attempting to export an illegal substance. The marijuana was valued at J$36,000, and the man was checking in for a flight to Curacao when officers searched his bags.
🇯🇲 Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston · Jamaica
Police charged Orville McCatty with possession of marijuana and with attempting
to export an illegal substance after a search of his luggage at Norman Manley
International Airport in Kingston.[1]Investigators from the Transnational
Crimes and Narcotics Division seized12.1 pounds (about 5.49 kg) of marijuana
from the passenger’s luggage at the airport on 9 May 2013.[1]
The man was taken into custody over the seizure and was charged afterwards.[1]Police said McCatty was checking in for an Insel Airline flight bound for
Curacao when officers searched his luggage, including his laptop bag, and found
the marijuana.[1]The police valued the marijuana at J$36,000.[1]
Case data
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Police in Falmouth, Trelawny, arrested a 33-year-old woman at a People's National Party meeting and seized a 9mm pistol with ten rounds and about one pound of ganja from her handbag. She was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and with possession of and dealing in ganja, and was due in the Western Regional Gun Court on 26 June 2018.
A St Catherine parish court sentenced fisherman Gaffi Daley to a concurrent total of 16 months at hard labour and a J$800,000 fine or six months more after police stopped his car in Portmore with 490 pounds of compressed ganja on 3 June 2018. Police had described him as a major player in the drugs-for-guns trade.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 222.26 kgPrison 16 months at hard labour, concurrent
A 32-year-old Barbadian was held at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on 17 January 2017 when a check found about 6.3 pounds (2.86 kg) of ganja in his luggage as he checked in for a flight to Barbados. Police said he would be charged with possession, dealing and export-preparation offences.
