One 32-year-old man arrested in Spotts-Newlands ganja operation
Police arrested a 32-year-old man during a ganja operation in Spotts-Newlands, Grand Cayman, on 14 August 2012. The RCIPS said he was arrested for cultivation and possession of ganja and suspected consumption of a controlled drug; he was released on police bail that day.
🇰🇾 Spotts-Newlands area, Grand Cayman · Cayman Islands
Police arrested one man during a ganja operation in the Spotts-Newlands area of
Grand Cayman.[1]The man was 32 years old.[1]Officers seized an unknown
amount of ganja during the operation.[1]The operation took place in the
afternoon of 14 August 2012.[2]The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said
he was arrested under the Misuse of Drugs Law.[2]The stated grounds were
cultivation and possession of ganja.[2]He was also arrested on suspicion of
consuming a controlled drug.[2]
Officers from Bodden Town Police Station, OSU and X-Ray 1 carried out the
operation.[2]Police described it as part of an ongoing island-wide initiative
focused on proactively tackling criminal and traffic-related offences.[2]Acting Chief Inspector Brad Ebanks, OiC of the Eastern Districts, warned that
the RCIPS was watching those involved in crime.[2]Ebanks said police would
pay close attention to those who commit such offences.[1]He added that people
involved in illegal activities could get an unexpected police visit.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The sources give no weight for the seized ganja or count of plants involved.
Neither account reports formal charges, later court proceedings or the eventual outcome after release on police bail.
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A police helicopter spotted a canoe off North West Point in West Bay, Grand Cayman, early on 24 September 2020, and the Cayman Islands Coast Guard intercepted it after three Jamaican men were seen throwing packages overboard. Officers recovered 42 packages weighing 980lbs of ganja, and the three men, aged 56, 44 and 31, were charged two days later with importation of ganja and illegal landing.
Police found a Jamaican-style canoe, packages of suspected ganja and two handguns with live ammunition at Spotts Beach, Grand Cayman, early on 21 May 2020. A 46-year-old Jamaican man was arrested that morning, charged two days later over the importation and supply of ganja, the firearms and his illegal landing, and remanded in custody.
Police in George Town arrested three men at a parking lot off Shedden Road shortly after 1:30am on 3 June 2019, after smelling ganja and finding small portions on two of them and several packets in their car. The car's owner, 35 and from East End, was held on suspicion of possession with intent to supply, and two West Bay men aged 34 and 21 on suspicion of possession and consumption.
