Suspect dealer escapes following drug raid

| 23/05/2017 | 35 Comments

(CNS): Police are on the hunt for a suspected drug dealer found at a house during an RCIPS drug raid yesterday lunchtime on Marina Drive in George Town who fled law enforcement authorities after becoming violent, the authorities said today. One of two drug related operations conducted by a joint police-customs team yesterday, the noon raid resulted in the recovery of “significant quantities of ganja” and a 45-year-old Jamaican man being arrested on suspicion of possession with intent as well as illegal landing. 

The second man at the property was said to have “violently resisted arrest, assaulted a customs officer and a detective” before he escaped.

The raid followed another in Watershed Circle, Savannah, at 5am Monday, when the RCIPS Drugs and Serious Crime Task Force, partnered with the customs enforcement, made four arrests and confiscated a significant quantity of ganja.  After recovering an undisclosed amount of drugs from around the premises, two women, both aged 30, from Bodden Town, were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply and taken into custody. A 33-year-old Savannah man was also arrested at another location on the same offence and he is also in police custody.

Anyone with any information about this man’s whereabouts is encouraged to call George Town CID at 949-4222.  Anonymous tips can be provided directly to the RCIPS via our Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or via the Miami-based call centre of Crime Stoppers at 800-8477(TIPS), or online here.

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  1. Jay says:

    “we want to be free” (Bob Marley)

  2. Youreloveinterest says:

    Decriminalize the cannabis. It does affect the developing brain but if the children have “broughtupsy” we have nothing to worry about. Kids also drink at young but they dont turn to alcoholics? We should decriminalize and regulate. However, I see more young caymanians on coke nowdays than ever before. Police need to raid the lawyers houses n the creeps that sell the cocain. That is the real problem in cayman. The coke epidemic has been here since the 80s. Why dont we hear anything about cocain. Doesnt anyone think something is wrong about that?…………..Island fever is more prevelant than we know.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Everyone knows something is wrong. Just look at how much cocaine went missing from the station evidence container. No one has had to answer for that. Who was responsible for securing the evidence container? Did they have cameras watching it? Were there any leads on the perpetrators? Was there an internal investigation? Tons of questions but no answers. All of that cocaine went back and probably still is on the street but all the RCIPS want to talk about is finding people with some grass that is proven to be harmless to partaking adults and has a lot less street value than they would have the public believe.

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  3. Anonymous says:

    RCIP picking the low hanging fruit again. Cannabis needs to be legalized,taxed and regulated. Just sayin

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    • Anonymous says:

      I agree, we need to treat drug addiction as a public health issue instead of a crimmal offense. The prohibition of drugs is quite similar to the prohibition on alcohol that the US had in the 1930s, it is not serving any purpose. If we add cannabis to a responsibility of the liquor license board and put the same restrictions on it as alcohol I think we would be doing the country a favor. As for other drugs like coke let’s decriminalize them and possibly regulate them to minimize the poisons that are put in them.

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    • Anonymous says:

      You’re an idiot

  4. Anonymous says:

    Prosecute the landlords!! I’m tired of slumlords allowing the scum of the earth to reside here with no work permit, bank account, or responsibility. NEW GOVT: Enforce our laws to clean up Cayman:
    1.) ENFORCE IMMIGRATION and bounce anyone who is “working for convenience” for some auntie once a week- no more free-for-all permits – these lead to crime!!
    2.) Prosecute Landlords who rent to these low-life-drug dealers.
    3.) Hire a frickin dog catcher who actually works and get the packs of wild dogs off our streets and ENFORCE spaying and neutering plus annual dog licensing.
    4.) Enforce the hiring of college educated locals into corporate jobs (and offer vocational training for lucrative blue collar jobs.)
    I have not gone out to VOTE yet, but I AM and nope, this last government did nothing for NWDA,Cruise ship dock debate, or The DUMP so even though I think my choices are slim (ugh) I cannot vote the PPM back into office- the divide between rich, poor, crime, jobs is getting worse, not better.

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  5. Anonymous says:

    The same people and thier children who say no or minimize significantly the intake of alchohol will do they same to marijuanna.

    The same people and their children who abuse alchohol will do they same to marijuanna. But marijuanna will not cause mass violence, alchohol does and people die.

    So they argument that marijuanna will have a devastating effect on society is invalid. Its about individuals making individual choices. It is not about legalizing marijuanna will mean more people will try it and Cayman will turn into Reffer Madness. Marijuanna is the same as a beer, and less violent.

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  6. U-Tube Watcher says:

    Ya know…… after reading this article and the comments, I believe it would be a good idea of at least one body cam videoing activities like this.

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  7. Anonymous says:

    A lot of long time ganja users in Britain end up in mental hospitals, the long term effects are well documented.

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  8. Anonymous says:

    Thank you police and customs this is exactly the kind of arrests we have been demanding.

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  9. Anonymous says:

    We need a real police force that actually does their job as cayman police are whatless. Even the few good officers are useless because of the inefficient practices and polices.

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  10. Wilbur clothesline says:

    I saw a man at hurleys who looked like he could get violent if arrested, is that him???

    Jeesas give us a clue who we looking for

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    • Anonymous says:

      If it’s that guy in the deli… watch out! You don’t want yo be there when he cuts the cheese.

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  11. Anonymous says:

    RCIPS might get more help if we knew who they were looking for

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  12. Unison says:

    You see this is what I’m talking about!

    This is sooooo unnecessary. You send an army, waste police time to apprehend men. Why???  Because they have marajuana and consume and sell it!

    Except for the illegal lander, this is why we need to decriminalize this harmless drug! 

    This is so rediculous and outdated, Cayman!  I am not endorsing crimes against people, but this drug harms no one!  And a waste of government funds – you mean to tell me 2 operations??? smh …  Incredible! :/

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    • Anonymous says:

      Unison, If you think about it a little bit, this makes perfect sense for the RCIPS. First off, they have been complaining about their budget not being enough for the past four years. However, the public knows that they hardly do as much as they can in regard to fighting crime (not simple consumption and possession). Since the whole medicinal marijuana topic gained public attention, and people have been advocating for young Caymanians lives to stop being ruined by the system, the police have not been able to brag much about busting teenagers for simple possession of insignificant amounts for personal consumption.

      One of the topics for this election, that candidates spoke about, was going a step further to decriminalize simple possession and consumption of marijuana. Now ask your self, if a proper statistical study was done to see what tasks the RCIPS are most successful in, I am sure that arresting people for simple possession and/or consumption are at the top of the list next to handing out speeding tickets. This is one of the most skill less tasks that any RCIPS officer can do. Now, compared to all the marijuana police have confiscated over the years (which most of ended back on the street), how many guns and illegal weapons were intercepted on the way to the island? That’s probably not a number the RCIPS would not like to publish as it would make them seem very incompetent.

      For you and I, this is completely unnecessary. For the RCIPS this is very necessary because once possession and consumption are decriminalized, most of the RCIPS will be sitting down twiddling their thumbs. There will be no “success” stories about busting a teenager for a joint that is on summer break from Uni, causing them not to have their next US visa granted. There will be not much for the RCIPS to do as a matter of fact, as most cases before the court are for simple possession and/or consumption of marijuana. Do you think at that point they will get a significant budget increase? It’s all about the money my friend, and the money comes from our pockets to line theirs.

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    • Anonymous says:

      Our crime problem in Cayman is directly enabled by too many law-disparaging residents sharing your misplaced theories on “benign ganja” trafficking and for too long. Consequently, these permissive attitudes have created a flourishing and active illicit transshipment economy with violent landed-aliens, guns, ammo, dangerous assasins/robbers, cocaine and murder. It is not benign. Respect our laws or leave!

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      • Chocolate milk says:

        Grow it on island in warehouses. It’s harmless my friend.

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        • Anonymous says:

          So sez Mr. Chocolate Milk, a leading authority on brain development and family mental health. Thank you Mr. Milk.

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          • Anonymous says:

            Alcohol has ZERO health benefits but perfectly legal. Stop spreading lies and misinformation about herb please.

            This isn’t rocket science but a social stigma in most cases. You look “cool” drinking a glass of scotch but you MUST be a criminal of sorts if you smoke herb! HA!

            Ignorance is bliss……

      • Anonymous says:

        If you legalize and regulate it then why would someone traffic a substance that would not make them much money? What would happen is that the trafficking boats will still come here but with other things such as guns and illegal aliens. The amount of marijuana being smuggled would drop drastically and then police can focus on guns and more important things.

    • Sinbad says:

      Until your kids get hooked on this stuff, then make your comments. I know a mother who is going through hell with her teenage child on the stuff and I can tell you it is not nice. What else are we going to decriminalized? Guns? Cocaine? Paid sex? When are we going to think of a society in the next 4 years? I country full of pot heads?

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      • Anonymous says:

        Wait…is there a law against paid sex? I don’t think so.

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      • nikolaus foster says:

        hooked?! cannabis is non addictive and harmless. it has claimed the lives of NONE. why don’t you look at how many people die from alcohol and cigarettes in our island, oh but wait everybody drinks and loves alcohol right? ignorance has plagued our island

    • Anonymous says:

      Lol

    • Anonymous says:

      “This drug harms no one” …..”Mommy, how do I face the real world?”

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  13. Anonymous says:

    BooJou?

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