About 7 am on Monday, police found 1,045 pounds (about 474 kg) of compressed and loose parcels of ganja in an unoccupied dwelling on Summit Road in Morant Bay, St Thomas.[1] Officers valued the find at about 142.12 million Jamaican dollars.[1] The narcotics division described it alongside two other recoveries that weekend as seizures worth a combined 377 million dollars.[1]
1,045 pounds of ganja found in unoccupied Morant Bay dwelling
Police found 1,045 pounds of compressed and loose ganja, valued at about 142 million Jamaican dollars, in an unoccupied dwelling on Summit Road in Morant Bay. The find was the largest of three seizures reported by the narcotics division that weekend.
🇯🇲 Summit Road, Morant Bay, St Thomas · Jamaica
- Cannabis
- 474 kg
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 474 kg
- Value (official estimate)
- JMD 142,120,000
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis (474 kg)
- Setting
- Mail or parcel
Sources
- Jamaica Gleaner (via 420 Magazine mirror)420magazine.comArchived copyCops Seize Ganja Worth $377m
Open questions the AI reported
- Only the Gleaner account, read as a 420 Magazine mirror reprint, could be opened; no second source was found.
- The exact publication date of the Gleaner article could not be recovered from the mirror; the mirror thread dates it to 18 April 2007.
- The article describes two further seizures that weekend, a yam container bound for London and furniture at a St Andrew warehouse, left out here as separate events.
- Two male suspects were in custody regarding one of the weekend's finds, but the reports do not say which, so no arrests are recorded for the Summit Road find.
- Police year-to-date seizure totals quoted in the article are national statistics and are not recorded here.
- No photograph of the seizure with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened source.
