Narcotics police seized more than 15,000 pounds of compressed ganja from three minibuses at a premises in Kingston's Mountain View area in January 2007. No one was arrested for the find.
🇯🇲 Mountain View Avenue area, Kingston · Jamaica
During January 2007 narcotics police seized more than 15,000 pounds (about 6.8 tonnes) of compressed ganja found in three Toyota Hiace buses at a premises in the Goodwill Avenue area of Kingston 6, in the Mountain View district.[1] No one was arrested for the drug find.[1]
The seizure was recounted the next month in an Observer report on a separate Clarendon raid, which described the Mountain View find as the narcotics police’s big recent haul.[1]
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