Seventeen kilograms of cannabis herb were seized in Martinique in early January 2009, the France-Antilles group's Martinique and Guadeloupe editions reported on 9 January 2009. The reports gave no account of where on the island the seizure was made, which unit carried it out or whether anyone was arrested.
🇫🇷 Martinique · France
Seventeen kilograms of cannabis herb were seized in Martinique.[1] France-Antilles reported the seizure on 9 January 2009 in its Martinique and Guadeloupe editions, describing an uninterrupted hunt for traffickers with no truce in the chase.[1]
The Martinique edition noted that in 2008 the drug squad had seized nearly 18 kilograms of cocaine or crack and 160 kilograms of cannabis herb.[2]
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