1,548 marijuana plants uprooted across St Kitts and Nevis in week
Police in St Kitts and Nevis uprooted 1,548 marijuana plants and seedlings in eradications on 23-28 April 2016 in Division B hills, Conaree, Newtown and Gingerland. The police Anti-Drug Unit said more than 24,000 plants and seedlings had been seized so far that year.
Royal St Christopher and Nevis police with law-enforcement partners uprooted and
seized marijuana plants and seedlings in a series of eradications in the week of
23 to 28 April 2016.[1]On 23 April, Division B officers on an eradication
patrol in hills in the division’s area found 450 marijuana plants under
cultivation and 150 seedlings in a nursery.[1]
Those Division B plants ranged from one to six feet tall.[1]On 27 April, a
joint Special Services Unit and Anti-Drug Unit operation uprooted 654 plants in
the Conaree area.[1]On 28 April, the same two units found and uprooted
another 39 plants in Newtown.[1]On the same day, officers in Nevis uprooted
and seized 255 plants, two to seven feet tall, from a lot in the Gingerland
area.[1]Police put the week’s total at 1,548 plants and seedlings.[1]
Anti-Drug Unit head Inspector Travis Rogers said police had seized over 24,000
plants and seedlings so far that year in anti-drug efforts against marijuana.[1]Head of Operations Assistant Commissioner Terrance James said eradicating
growers was like a game of cat and mouse as growers sought more secluded areas
and better camouflage.[1]
Photos and video
Some of the marijuana plants uprooted by police that week. Photo published by The St Kitts Nevis Observer.Photo details
No arrests, charges or court outcome are named in the release; none are recorded.
The release gives activity dates of 23, 27 and 28 April 2016 and is dated 29 April, republished 3 May; 28 April, the last eradication day, is used as the incident date.
The 24,000-plant year-to-date total is context, not this week's event figure, and is not recorded in figures.
The precise Division B hill locations are not named beyond the division's area of responsibility.
Only one opened account, a police press release republished by the Observer, could be found; no independent second source was located.
The page photo caption does not state which of the week's sites the pictured plants came from.
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.
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.
In the fourth day of Operation Safe Streets in St Kitts and Nevis, police said search teams had uprooted and seized more than 25,000 marijuana plants from 92 cultivated sites and valued the haul at over EC$11 million. The operation began on 20 September 2016 and combined police with the Defence Force, Customs and the Regional Security System.
St Kitts police uprooted 550 marijuana plants in operations across five areas between 19 and 21 June 2008, seizing an air rifle and arresting one man for possession and cultivation after seeds were found at his home. No one else was held for the field finds.
