10 lb of marijuana seized near Southeast Peninsula ferry landing, three held
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.
🇰🇳 Ferry landing, Southeast Peninsula, St Kitts · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Three people were detained near the ferry landing on St Kitts’s Southeast
Peninsula on Sunday 5 February 2017 after police found a box of marijuana and
cocaine.[1]The Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force said the three
were interviewed and later released, and that nobody had been charged over the
find.[1]The box held about ten pounds of marijuana, some 4.54 kg, and about
two pounds of cocaine.[1]The force estimated the street value of the
marijuana at EC$93,288, and put the cocaine separately at EC$89,100.[1]
The operation combined the police Special Services Unit, an armed unit, the
police Anti-Drug Unit and the St Kitts and Nevis Defence Force.[2]Three
county press outlets carried the police release on 6 February 2017, a day after
the search.[2]
The release linked the find to an unrelated January case in which a passenger
arriving at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport was stopped carrying
cocaine in his stomach.[1]NevisPages and SKN PULSE carried the same release
but gave the marijuana’s street value as EC$279,864.[3]
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The marijuana seized during the search near the ferry landing on 5 February 2017, in a police photograph the Observer used as its lead image.Photo details
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Source: The St Kitts Nevis ObserverPolice photograph captioned "Quantity of Cocaine seized", showing the cocaine found with the marijuana; the cocaine is not counted as cannabis in this report.Photo details
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Source: SKN PULSEPolice photograph captioned "Box containing illegal drugs seized during search operation", showing the box holding the marijuana and cocaine found near the ferry landing.Photo details
The Observer gives the marijuana's street value as EC$93,288, while NevisPages and SKN PULSE give EC$279,864 for the same release; this report uses the Observer figure as its value and records the difference.
The weights are police approximations (ten pounds and two pounds); no laboratory weight or packaging detail was published.
The release gives no separate time for the search beyond Sunday 5 February 2017, and the force statement was issued on 6 February, a Monday; the report uses the search date.
No names, nationalities, charges or court outcomes were published for the three people detained.
The three sources are the same police release republished, not independent reporting, and no further coverage of the case was found.
No count of plants or area is involved; the media include a cocaine photograph and a box photograph from the police release, while the Observer attachment page carries only the marijuana picture.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in The St Kitts Nevis Observer: Commissioner of Police Ian M. Queeley said the force needed public help to keep making seizures of that size and urged residents to report what they see.
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.
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.
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.
