1,600 pounds of ganja seized in St Thomas; two charged
Police intercepted two cars on the Pamphret main road in St Thomas on September 26, 2025, seizing 1,600 pounds of compressed ganja in 33 bags. Two men were arrested and charged with possession, dealing, export-preparation and trafficking offences.
🇯🇲 Pamphret main road, St Thomas · Jamaica
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Arrested
2
Charged
2
Cannabis
725.75 kg
Agencies
Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC), Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID)
Officers from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch,
supported by the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division, intercepted two
vehicles along the Pamphret main road in St Thomas on Friday, September 26,
2025.[1]Officers searched the two vehicles and found 1,600 pounds of
compressed ganja packed in 33 knitted bags.[1]The two occupants, 41-year-old
Rayon Chambers of Whitehouse, Westmoreland, and 30-year-old Tekashi Foster of
Slipe, St Elizabeth, were arrested at the scene.[1]
Both men were charged with possession of ganja, dealing in ganja, taking steps
preparatory to export ganja, and trafficking ganja.[1]Their court date was
still being finalised when the charges were announced.[1]Police described the
seizure as the second major ganja seizure in St Thomas in just over a week, part
of intensified efforts to disrupt the illegal guns-for-drugs trade.[1]
A second outlet corroborated that more than 1,600 pounds of ganja were seized
during the weekend police operation on the Pamphret main road in St Thomas, with
two men taken into custody.[2]That account likewise reported that two motor
cars were intercepted and searched, revealing 33 knitted bags containing
compressed ganja.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Charged
2
Cannabis
725.75 kg
Agencies
Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC); Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID)
The exact calendar date is inferred: the Gleaner, published September 30, 2025, says the interception happened on Friday, which was September 26, 2025; the second outlet describes it only as on the weekend.
The Gleaner gives 1,600 pounds while Nationwide says more than 1,600 pounds; this report uses the 1,600-pound figure and converts it to about 725.75 kg.
No street value for the Pamphret seizure was published.
No court outcome beyond the announced charges was reported.
Police and the JDF Coast Guard seized over 2,000 pounds of ganja from a canoe near Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth on March 3. Four men on board were charged with possession, dealing, trafficking and export-related ganja offences.
The Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard intercepted a vessel southwest of Long Bay Beach, Manchester, seizing over 2,286 pounds of marijuana valued at about $45 million. Four people were detained and handed over with the drugs to the police narcotics division for processing.
Police seized over 1,500 pounds of compressed ganja from a truck on Church Street in Morant Bay, St Thomas, on 1 October 2025 and arrested its driver, Fabian Watson, 33, a Clarendon haulage contractor. He was charged on Friday with possession, dealing, trafficking and export-related ganja offences; police valued the ganja at about J$4.7 million.
Three men are being prosecuted over 1,890 pounds (about 857 kg) of compressed ganja that police said they were taking to a Jamaican port on 15 August 2025. Two were granted $1 million bail, the third stayed in lockup, and the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court set 6 January 2026 for case management.
