Members of the St Kitts police force uprooted 550 marijuana plants during operations conducted between 19 and 21 June 2008 in the Tabernacle, Mansion, Cayon, Boyds and Sandy Point areas, according to a police press release.[1] In Sandy Point on 19 June, officers found 25 plants two to eight feet tall growing on an empty plot on Downing Street and uprooted them.[1] In Tabernacle on 21 June, 150 plants from seedlings to a foot tall were found in an abandoned house at Carty’s Pasture and taken into custody.[1] In Mansion, 25 plants growing in containers plus an air rifle were seized from an abandoned house at Long Alley in Mansion Village, and 150 more plants in containers were seized on a plot at the Mansion Housing Project.[1] Cane fields in Cayon and Boyds searched the same day yielded 200 more plants up to ten feet tall.[1]
Separately, on 20 June police executed a search warrant at the Fig Tree home of Gavin Morryshow in Sandy Point and arrested and charged him with possession and cultivation of cannabis after finding marijuana seeds and other items.[1] Police said no one else had been held for the field finds, and investigations were continuing.[1]
