Police seized roughly 200 pounds (90 kg) of packaged marijuana during a raid in St Elizabeth parish, a police statement said on Sunday 30 October 2011; no one was arrested.
🇯🇲 St Elizabeth parish · Jamaica
Police in Jamaica seized roughly 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of marijuana in a raid in the rural southwestern parish of St Elizabeth.[1] A police statement issued on Sunday said the packaged marijuana was seized during the raid, and that no arrests had been made.[1]
The report noted the United States State Department’s assessment that Jamaica is the Caribbean’s largest producer and exporter of marijuana, grown mostly on mountain hillsides or hidden among other crops.[1]
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