In 24 hours, Police and Customs seized nearly 100 pounds of cannabis during joint drug operations at V.C. Bird International Airport and Deep Water Harbour.
According to reports, on Wednesday, September 24, law enforcement searched the Deep Water Harbour Cargo Area and found two cardboard boxes with forty vacuum-sealed packages of cannabis.
The boxes and their contents were transported to Police Headquarters for further examination. The total substance weighed forty (40) pounds and had an estimated street value of $240,000.
On Tuesday, an operation at the airport Cargo Shed uncovered two cardboard boxes containing fifty-two vacuum-sealed packages of cannabis. The 52 pounds of drugs, valued at approximately $312,000, were seized and taken to Police Headquarters.
Both seizures disrupt the illegal drug trade and showcase the cooperation between Police and Customs in protecting Antigua and Barbuda’s borders. Investigations into the incidents are ongoing.
CHUPS!
I want my drugs back
Somebody is crying tonight because their shipment gone.
Police and Customs need to stay vigilant, the traffickers will try again.
Hmm,100 pounds well somebody crying tonight
Police and Customs working good dis time. Big up demself, cause we cyaan let the place turn into drug hub
Good job officers. Antigua small, once drugs flood the place, crime bound to increase.
$552,000 worth of ganja gone just so? Somebody bawling tonight
Hmmmm somebody or some people crying right now
Sometimes me wonder if the small man woulda get catch so easy, or if dem big fish dem does slip tru
I wonder how it is that all the po po ever finds is the plant but never powder/ pills? I mean really? And just how/why is miss mary jane, naturally grown by nature with no additives, is classified as a drug?
People still doing that kind of thangggggggg!
People still getting locked up for grass. lol
Good job by the police, but with the ongoing global debate on cannabis, it raises questions about whether enforcement or regulation is the better approach.
Boy dem cannabis seizure getting more frequent than LIAT flight