Customs find 241 kg of hashish in cars inside a Pointe-à-Pitre container
Guadeloupe customs officers seized 241 kilograms of cannabis resin, which they valued at 1.7 million euros, from bags hidden in two cars carried inside a container unloaded at the port of Pointe-à-Pitre on 30 January 2018. A judicial inquiry into trafficking between mainland France and Guadeloupe was given to the local branch of the OCRTIS anti-drug office.
🇫🇷 Port de Pointe-à-Pitre, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe · France
On 30 January 2018 customs officers in Guadeloupe uncovered a large cannabis
resin trafficking operation.[1]They seized241 kilograms of cannabis resin,
which customs valued at 1.7 million euros.[1]RCI Guadeloupe reported the same
241 kilograms of resin and the same estimate of 1.7 million euros.[2]RCI
described the operation as the dismantling of a drug trade between mainland
France and Guadeloupe and noted that the drug involved, unlike in earlier cases,
was cannabis resin.[2]
Guadeloupe customs officers traced the network by analysing transfers of
vehicles between mainland France and the archipelago.[1]A suspicious
container had been unloaded at the port of Pointe-à-Pitre.[1]RCI reported
that analysing the vehicle transfers led officers to a suspicious container
recently unloaded at the port.[2]The customs surveillance service’s check of
the container’s two vehicles found bags concealing the resin in one of the cars.[2]
RCI reported that the prosecutor’s office of the specialised interregional court
in Fort-de-France assigned the inquiry to that OCRTIS branch.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Neither opened account reports an arrest or names any suspect in connection with the 241 kilograms.
Neither account states whether the 241 kilograms were all found in the container or whether part was seized elsewhere, so they are recorded as a single figure.
The reports do not say which mainland port the container left from, nor where the resin was produced; both say only that the trade ran between mainland France and Guadeloupe.
The Guadeloupe La 1ère page says at the start that the seizure amounted to almost 2 million euros while its detailed passage gives 1.7 million; the two detailed accounts give 1.7 million, which is recorded.
The value is the authorities' estimate for resale on the illegal retail market, not a court valuation.
A separate French customs case is described in the same RCI article, a 1,567 kg resin find at the Antibes toll on the A8, and is left out because it is a different event.
No court outcome or later step in the investigation is known from these opened accounts.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Guadeloupe La 1ère: Inside the container were two vehicles in which bags of cannabis resin were hidden.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Guadeloupe La 1ère: A judicial investigation was opened and entrusted to the local branch of OCRTIS, France's central office for the suppression of illicit drug trafficking.
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