American charged after ganja in cereal boxes at Jamaican airport
American businessman Jermain Hall Sutherland was arrested and charged at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay after officers found compressed ganja hidden in two cereal boxes in his delayed luggage. He faces charges of possession of, dealing in and importing ganja under Jamaica’s Dangerous Drugs Act.
🇯🇲 Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay, St James · Jamaica
Narcotics officers arrested Jermain Hall Sutherland, a businessman from Fort
Worth, Texas.[1]Police say Sutherland also resides in Duanvale, Trelawny.[1]Sutherland was accused of possession of, dealing in and importing ganja,
charges under Jamaica’s Dangerous Drugs Act.[1]
Narcotics officers apprehended him after he had been on the island for a week.[1]Reports say Sutherland landed at the airport the previous Thursday on an
American Airlines flight from Texas, but his luggage was delayed, so he went to
the airport on Wednesday to collect it.[1]At 12:15 p.m., the luggage was
searched at the Customs Department, when it was found to contain two cereal
boxes, each with compressed ganja, the police said.[1]The find was at
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, in the parish of St James.[1]Narcotics detectives arrested Jermain Hall Sutherland after he had been on the
island for a week.[2]
The American was taken into custody and was subsequently charged.[1]
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Agash Wade was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $215,000 after police found 25 pounds of ganja at his premises in De la Vega City, Spanish Town. The St Catherine Parish Court ordered the terms to run consecutively until the fines are paid, after the prosecution dropped a concealment charge.
Police charged two Westmoreland men with possession, dealing and trafficking after FNID officers found cocaine and ganja in their car on Mandela Highway on March 4. The ganja quantity was not specified, so no cannabis weight is recorded, and the men are due before the St Catherine Parish Court on March 13.
District Constable Robert Campbell was charged with dealing in ganja and bringing prohibited articles into the Horizon Adult Remand Centre in Kingston. Supervisors caught him after a parcel fell from his pocket in the barrack room, and a later search of his knapsack found more suspected ganja, suspected tobacco, cash and other items.
According to Harm Reduction International, court cases for possessing or smoking cannabis fell by more than 90 per cent after the reform of April 2015, and criminal cases referred to the courts in 2016 were 25 per cent fewer than in 2014. In 2016 the government nearly doubled its budget for the national HIV response, from 2.83 to 5.17 million US dollars.