Police begin week-long eradication of St Elizabeth swamp ganja fields
Narcotics police and soldiers began clearing a multimillion-dollar ganja cultivation on swampland in St Elizabeth on 10 March 2009, destroying 14 acres and disposing of 600 pounds of weed on the first days. The operation was expected to take at least a week, and no arrests were reported.
🇯🇲 Swampland near Slipe and Burnt Savannah, St Elizabeth · Jamaica
Narcotics police and members of the Jamaica Defence Force began eradicating a
multimillion-dollar ganja cultivation on swampland in St Elizabeth on 10 March
2009, after discovering it the previous day.[1]Senior Superintendent Carlton
Wilson, head of the Narcotics Division, said it would take at least a week to
complete the task.[1]He said the operation followed intelligence of a
significant increase in ganja production, which police had anticipated as
people scrambled for money in the economic recession.[1]
JDF helicopters ferried the lawmen to the swampland, disturbing the usually
quiet farming communities of Slipe and Burnt Savannah.[1]By late on 10
March they had destroyed 14 acres of ready-to-reap ganja, and a day earlier
police had disposed of 600 pounds (about 272 kg) of the weed.[1]Deputy
Superintendent Herman Miller, the senior narcotics officer on the ground,
called the find the tip of the iceberg, and officers reported that one farmer
held about four buckets of ganja seeds ready to sow.[1]
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The St James Parish Court fined 76-year-old Washington Hylton $17,000 after eight ounces of ganja were found in his luggage at Sangster International Airport as he prepared to leave for London. He pleaded guilty to possession and attempting to export the cannabis.
Jamaican police arrested two men and a woman during a six-hour series of raids in Highlight View and Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, seizing marijuana worth about $500,000 and what they called an assortment of offensive weapons. The operation targeted suspected extortionists and gang members in the illicit drugs-for-guns trade.
Dalton Fang pleaded guilty to possession after officers found about one ounce of ganja hidden inside dumplings he brought to the Montego Bay police lock-up. The St James Parish Court fined him $5,000, with 10 days in jail as the alternative.
Officers from the Narcotics Division and the Mobile Reserve destroyed five acres of ganja across three fields around Yallahs, St Thomas, on 22 April 2019, along with ten pounds of ganja seeds. No arrests were reported in the operation.
