321 kg cannabis seized in 319 Saint Lucia Drug Unit operations by June 2020
Saint Lucia's Royal Police Force announced on 16 June 2020 that its Drug Unit had led 319 operations that year, arresting 24 people and seizing 321 kilograms of cannabis plus 33 grams of cannabis resin. The same operations recovered firearms and ammunition and seized cocaine and crack.
Acting Corporal Ann Joseph, public relations officer of the Royal Saint Lucia
Police Force, announced the results of the force’s operations at a press
conference on 16 June 2020.[1]Joseph said 24 people had been arrested in the
operations.[1]The Drug Unit had led 319 operations in 2020 up to that point.[1]Officers executed 74 warrants on various premises, 37 of them during
special operations.[1]
Police said a total of 321 kilograms of cannabis was seized in the operations.[1]Officers also seized 33 grams of cannabis resin.[1]The same operations
produced 8.827 kilograms of cocaine and 6 grams of crack.[1]The operations
resulted in the seizure of 504 articles of ammunition.[1]Fifty firearms had
been recovered overall, 22 of them by the Drug Unit.[1]
Joseph described the operations as joint efforts between the Drug Unit and other
departments and stations within the force.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no separate dates for the individual operations; 16 June 2020 is the press-conference and publication date for totals covering the year up to that point.
No breakdown by operation, location or seizure was published, and the 24 arrested people are not named or charged in the account.
Cocaine and crack quantities reported alongside the cannabis are mentioned for context and excluded from the cannabis figures.
Firearm and ammunition counts are in the text but have no field in the figures schema.
Only one accessible account of this announcement was found after searching for a second report, including in the local press.
Customs and police officers seized about 149.69 kg of compressed cannabis, 10.14 kg of cannabis resin and USD $110,000 from a shipment at Port Castries on 26 March 2026. One person was detained to assist the continuing investigation, with no charges reported.
Royal Saint Lucia Police Force units intercepted a foreign vessel on 11 January 2026 and found about 850 kg of compressed cannabis, valued at EC$3.4 million. The two people aboard fled on foot and were not caught.
Police and customs officers seized 27.08 kg of compressed cannabis, cannabis and cannabis resin hidden in barrels in Shed 6 and Shed 7 at Port Castries on 15 November 2025. The drugs were valued at about EC$900,000 and no arrests were reported as police investigated the consignees.
Saint Lucia's police marine unit stopped a canoe off Mathurin Point, Vieux Fort, on 24 May 2019, seized 63 pounds of what appeared to be cannabis and charged Martinez Fontenelle with possession of a controlled drug before granting him bail. A second man who jumped overboard was later found dead at Mathurin Point.
