Marine cops net 1,000lbs of ganja
(CNS): The RCIPS Joint Marine Unit with the help of the police helicopter has seized 1,000lbs of ganja from what appears to be another drug canoe that was on its way to Cayman. Two Jamaican nationals who were on board were arrested and remain in custody as police investigate the circumstances surrounding the drug haul, which is estimated to have a street value of over $1 million. Police said the boat was spotted adrift at sea on Wednesday about 50 miles east of Grand Cayman.
When the marine officers aboard the MV Mark Luke came alongside the vessel around 4:30pm, they spotted what was described as a “substantial amount of ganja in numerous packages on board”. The two Jamaican men, aged 59 and 33, were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, as officers seized both the vessel and the massive ganja haul.
Police have made a number of major ganja seizures over the last few years. This latest appears to be one of the biggest single seizures, though not the biggest. In 2017 officers found more than 1,040lbs on an abandoned semi-submerged vessel off the coast of West Bay.
Since then, there have been several seizures of hundreds of pounds of the drug. More than 900lbs was seized in March in a bust that followed a chase at sea, in which officers were shot at and returned fire before they caught up with the boat and were able to arrest the suspect smugglers.
just reflect usage…sad…if no demand.. no supply😢
Cayman has a housing crisis and crime is on the rise. Meantime, this government wastes money chasing weed dealers as if that is the bigger danger. Very strange priorities.1950s enforcement culture.
Start thinking things thru or begin losing your tourist trade because it’s no secret crime is on the rise in Cayman..
OMG! People getting high on something other than booze? What an outrage! “Crime has smashed our tourist industry, but at least we’re winning the evil ganja wars!”
Few thing scream 3rd world like families living in shipping containers in Grand Cayman while the government wastes $$$ funding police enforcement around smashing ganja while the downtown is still infested with feral roosters crowing half the night!
Many states in the US are moving towards legalizing weed because of the tax revenues – revenues that could help the housing crisis. Add those $$$ to police savings trying to quell ganja and that’s a significant chunk of change towards real social justice!
With all of the sun, wind and wave energy available to the Caymans, is electricity still being generated by burning ship loads of fuel oil? Really? You’re kidding, right?
big F minus for responsible environmental stewardship.
Also, how much would it really cost to deal with all of the feral roosters downtown crowing all night? 3rd world, baby! You’re government remains so asleep on so many things and could have the $$$ resources to solve them with a touch of critical thinking.
But it seems easier to remain righteous within inaction. Change seems to scare your government in their 3rd world slumber…
One shipment was stopped. The others not only had drugs but they had guns and people. Out of these people that are smuggled was one who is a serial phedophile/rapist.
So to those persons that bring and/or support these shipments I hope the serial phedophile/rapist visits your home and family to share himself. In fact you probably invited that person so you can watch and get off on it.
These shipments dont ONLY bring drugs. Other things and persons also come with it too.
Which is why killing their cash cow incentive through regulation / personal grow allowances instead of making thousands of Caymanians pay drug lords for their choice of natural medicine is the solution.
Throwing money at a problem with a solution that’s being ignored.
Its a source country you donkey. Do you really believe that the black market will stop smuggling it……
If you do then I got a Gold Mine in East End that I can sell you for 2million CI cheap…
I need to sell it quick so I can retire. Too many long hours digging up that Gold.
huh?
Legalize it and then spend government $$$ resources on REAL crimes…Black market prices will drop removing financial smuggling incentives.
Then, tax the legal sales of it to fight real crime and get out of the 1950s…
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea recognises freedom of navigation for all vessels outside of the 12 miles limit of territorial waters. In international waters no country has the right to impede the passage of any vessel except if it is engaged in piracy or warfare.
These two men were engaged in trade; granted it may be an illegal trade so far as the Cayman Islands are concerned, but until their boat entered Cayman territorial waters they have committed no crime.
The only jurisdiction over this particular boat in the location 50 miles East of Grand Cayman is that of the country of registry, i.e. Jamaica.
Was the JDF involved? Apparently not!
What absolute rubbish. You somehow managed to be wrong on every single legal point. LoL.
Don’t quit your day job…..
The only effect this action will have, is an increase of the price of weed.
That is all.
And more profit for the drug lords who keep stashes for hard times so they easily recover from one lost shipment out of ?.. $1 million street value but only a small wholesale value lost…
You’re a fool if you think the war on cannabis isn’t a huge waste of time and public money.
They only catch what they want to catch, what happened to the stuff that wash up ,by liers tree in West Bay, who pick it up ?? .
so muc smoke be blowing up in LA they mus be smoking inside it too lol
Back to School for you…. You make no sense – God did you miss out—- now a burden on us.
That’s alright 3 other shipments made it through.
About time we legalize and regulate it to destroy the black market. Just bought a pound.. Why must I give my money to the drug lords because unna don’t want to regulate it like tobacco?
A ton of weed on one boat and you 60 year old + farts think it’s a joke when I say thousands of Caymanians want legal cannabis like Canada too. Colorado has made over a billion in tax revenue, we would too!!!
Thank God… you can’t get a travel visa; to embarrass these Cayman Islands.
RCIPS has been seizing a lot of shipments lately. Unusually so! So did their skills suddenly improve? No! “Perhaps” they’re using surreptitious means to assist them. For example, monitoring phones. However, are those surveillance means authorized? Wanna bet RCIPS and their “intelligence” geeks are illegally tapping phones? Remember, any legal surveillance has to be justified by RCIPS and authorized by Governor, a JP or a Judge. However, no one monitors the “geeks” who have access to all the electronic “bells & whistles” to monitor phones, so what’s stopping them from illegal surveillance? Nothing!!
Fighting crime is one thing but illegal monitoring is a real serious breach of persons’ rights and what one would expect in some dictatorship!
It’s happening!
What a load of s#/t you talk
Methinks your supply may have been interrupted:)
Me thinks he’s been getting high of his own supply.
Great work RCIPS. 50 miles off! Seriously long way, yet again the police helicopter at work, air ambulance one minute, drugs the next. How many other jurisdictions have such a flexible resource. Major respect to the marine unit on that kind of distance with the resources they have, and getting the job done again. Question has to be asked why their big boat was not used for that distance.
Could get a blimp with radar attached so it can be in the air 24/7
Idiots ran out of gas stop swelling your head. As usual other loads made it. Black market means a ton of profit for the drug lords and corrupted law enforcement.
Anyone who opposes legal regulation of the herb like tobacco likely has a stake in the black market. Vote yes for legal cannabis when we launch the referendum. Tired of the drug lords profiting.
Everyone gonna read this and be like ok law enforcement working but it’s not! Cayman ga weed don’t be fooled!
You look as HP’s on-each vessel…. you are the Idiot…… run out of gas. OR CAUGHT.
Excellent news RCIPS. Well done!!
I don’t care what people say, it proves you are on the ball in combatting these drug runners. This large amount of ganja would have been detrimental to the health of many young people. If they have the money to buy drugs they can spend it to further their education to get a job and earn an honest days living. Let’s clean up this island.
I’m a professional Caymanian making over 3k a month who prefers to relax with it instead of alcohol..
Weed doesn’t make you lazy but lazy people like alcohol and whatever else.
Whats your employment?
Or if they have money to buy drugs, the can buy ‘legal drugs’ imported by Jacques Scott (Dart) and Tortuga (Hammity) and make the two of them richer. Those ‘legal drugs’ will make them even more high and disoriented. So what if they’re a lil dangerous on the road driving home from consuming their ‘legal drugs’ like the guy on Crewe Rd this week that blew 0.212, the island would still be clean right? Duh
1:33am, to clean these islands up, we would need to Purge them of the importers and users from neighboring countries who introduced it. Were we producers? They came, they saw, they conquored, now we have the results of poor importation. Drain the swamp.
Purge? Do you even know where “caymanians” come from? You realize that there was no indigenous population here right? Unless you’re talking about the Chinese and indian indentured servants that brought these plants and their derivative substances to the west… Chill out with the divisive bullship.
The bottom line is, cannabis is popular in Cayman amongst locals and foreigners. Blaming race culture or nationality will not solve the problem of how to address the dissonance between the law and the people it’s supposed to represent.
Our strong ties with Jamaica continues.
This started back in the ’70’s no news here.
10:19pm, that’s exactly the problem, which strong ties with Jamaica? Any tie can be broken, that’s why we will forever be in the mess we are in. Adapt Trumps philosophy.
Adapt Trump’s philosophy? Are you dumb or just a troll? Humble yourself small islander.
No guns found? I’d be very surprised if there weren’t any. Good job guys, now bring it back to Cayman and make cannabis oil out of it. That if it tests clean and is of high enough quality.
Legalize it!
How about we allow Caymanians to grow a limited amount of it for personal use and sell commercial licenses / tax retail sales? We don’t need to import a plant that only needs sun soil and water.
Why not? Honest question. We allow tobacco to smoked right within feet of the LA 24/7.
Meanwhile the real threats ( Tobacco and Alcohol ) continue to safely arrive here on our shores to ensure people will have a means to destory their own well being while systematically moving towards the regulation of marijuana. Authorities are the pawns of the mafia aka the government.
The state of Virginia allows citizens to grown up to four ganja plants in their homes.
This is the 3rd decade of the 21st century, not the 1950s…