$131,000 of suspected marijuana found in furniture boxes at Nassau airport
Officers from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Bahamas Customs and the Department of Immigration seized suspected marijuana worth an estimated $131,000 at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau on 26 October 2023. The drugs, packed in vacuum-sealed bags, had been hidden inside three boxes of furniture shipped through a local courier company, and no arrests were made.
🇧🇸 Lynden Pindling International Airport, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
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On Thursday 26 October 2023, officers from the Anti-Gang and Firearms
Investigation Task Force, working with the Bahamas Customs Department and the
Department of Immigration, carried out a joint operation at the Lynden Pindling
International Airport in Nassau.[1]
Authorities confiscated suspected marijuana worth an estimated $131,000.[1]During an inspection of several incoming packages at an intake area used by a
local courier company, officers found multiple vacuum-sealed bags of suspected
marijuana concealed inside three boxes of furniture.[1]
No arrests were made in connection with the seizure.[1]Police said they would
continue to interdict contraband, including dangerous drugs and firearms, in
cooperation with other agencies, and to deter traffickers from importing such
contraband into the Bahamas.[1]
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Only one account, The Tribune's report of the police preliminary statement, was found; no independent second source or the police's own statement could be opened.
The article gives no weight for the marijuana, only an estimated value of $131,000.
The $131,000 is described as an estimate and the currency is taken as Bahamian dollars, as local reporting uses the $ sign.
The drugs are described as suspected marijuana; no laboratory confirmation was reported.
No arrests, charges, suspects or sender or recipient of the shipments were identified.
The article says only that the boxes of furniture were incoming packages at a courier intake area; it does not say where they came from.
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Police in Nassau seized 13 bags of suspected marijuana from a home on Fire Trail Road East around 7 a.m. on 10 March 2021 and detained five men and two women. The Drug Enforcement Unit and K-9 unit carried out the search on police intelligence; no charges were reported.
