Seven held after 12.5 lb of cannabis found on vessel in St Kitts
Police, coast guard and customs officers searched the cargo vessel C-Elizabeth II after it docked at St Kitts on 10 August 2026 and found 12.515 pounds of cannabis and one kilogram of cocaine. The captain and six crew members were taken into custody.
🇰🇳 Basseterre port, St Kitts · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Officers from the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force, the St Kitts-Nevis Coast Guard and
the Customs and Excise Department searched the cargo vessel C-Elizabeth II after it docked at
St Kitts at about 9 a.m. on 10 August 2026.[1][2][3][4]The search included the customs K9 unit and
the police Anti-Narcotics Unit.[1][2]It found vegetable material later confirmed as cannabis
weighing 12.515 pounds (about 5.68 kg) and one kilogram of cocaine.[1][2][3]The police Crime Scene
Unit processed the scene and the drugs were taken into custody.[1][3]
The captain and six crew members, nationals of Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad
and Tobago, were taken into custody to assist the investigation.[1][2][3][4]The police did not say
whether they had been charged.[1][3]The force said the investigation was ongoing.[1][3][4]SKNVibes
reported that the seizure raised questions about the vessel’s history and whether St Kitts is a
transhipment point for drugs.[2]
SKNVibes said the seizure raised questions about the vessel’s ownership, registration and previous movements, and whether the Federation is a transhipment point for drugs.[2]
The drugs were concealed in bags of dry coconut that had come from St. Vincent.[4]
Photos and video
The cannabis and cocaine seized aboard the C-Elizabeth II, in a police photograph published with the force's statement.Photo details
No individual names or nationalities were published; the force named only the three countries.
No charges were announced.
No street value was published for the cannabis or the cocaine.
The reports do not say where the vessel had sailed from before St Kitts.
The vessel's ownership and registry were not reported.
The reports also describe a 2022 drug seizure on a similarly named vessel at the same port, a separate event left out here.
The article also recounts an October 4, 2022 seizure of 800 kg of cocaine and cannabis aboard a similarly named vessel at the same port, a separate earlier event left out of this report.
Nubian Greaux of Shadwell Housing was charged with possession and cultivation of cannabis with intent to supply after police searched his home on 26 March 2026. Officers seized 271 cannabis plants and several packages of cannabis, and he was taken into custody and charged at Basseterre Police Station.
Merville Liburd of Zion, Nevis was charged with cultivation of cannabis and cultivation with intent to supply for offences committed on 13 March 2026. He was charged at the Charlestown Police Station, with no seizure quantity or court outcome reported.
Police searching near the ferry landing on St Kitts's Southeast Peninsula on 5 February 2017 found a box of about ten pounds of marijuana and two pounds of cocaine. Three people were detained, interviewed and released, and no one was charged.
Swimmers found a bale of hashish bobbing in the water off Half Moon Bay on 16 July 2016 and alerted police, whose Anti-Drug Unit seized it. Police said it contained compressed packages but gave no weight or package count; the investigation was ongoing.
