527 lb of ganja found in container roof at Kingston port
Narcotics police found 90 packages of compressed ganja weighing 527 pounds (about 239 kilograms) hidden in a false compartment in the roof of a 40-foot container at Kingston Wharves, Port Bustamante, on 25 July 2002. It was the second export-bound ganja seizure at the port in about two weeks, and no one was arrested in either case.
In just under two weeks, the narcotics police seized two shipments of compressed ganja bound for overseas at Port Bustamante in Kingston.[1]
About 9:15 a.m. on Thursday 25 July 2002, guards from Security Administrators Ltd. joined narcotics police searching a 40-foot container at Kingston Wharves and found 90 packages of ganja weighing 527 pounds (about 239 kilograms) hidden in a false compartment in the roof.[1]No one was arrested.[1]
About two weeks earlier, officers at the port’s container station searched another 40-foot container and found compressed ganja concealed in tins and boxes among 1,000 cases of syrup bound for the Netherlands.[1]Members of the Contraband Enforcement Team had been examining export documents when they noticed the name of an exporter on the Customs Department’s watch list, which prompted the thorough search.[1]Again, the police reported no arrest.[1]
The account gives no weight for the syrup-container find and no destination for the 527-pound shipment beyond overseas.[1]
Case data
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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 seized over 1,500 pounds of compressed ganja from a truck on Church Street in Morant Bay, St Thomas, on 1 October 2025 and arrested its driver, Fabian Watson, 33, a Clarendon haulage contractor. He was charged on Friday with possession, dealing, trafficking and export-related ganja offences; police valued the ganja at about J$4.7 million.
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.
