Tag: drug crime
Cocaine beach robber suspect denies charges
(CNS): Marvin Grant (35), from North Side, has denied being the masked man armed with a machete on Christmas Eve who robbed staff at an East End resort as they were trying to guard a 60lb cocaine haul that had washed up on the beach in anticipation of the arrival of the police. Grant has pleaded […]
Case against immigration deputy drags on
(CNS): The deputy chief immigration officer remains on paid leave this week after an application to have charges against her thrown out failed. Jeannie Lewis has been charged for permitting drugs to be used at her house and knowingly assisting an illegal immigrant, having been swept up in an early morning police operation at her […]
Five men charged after 700lb ganja bust
(CNS): Five men who were intercepted by the RCIPS Joint Marine Unit in two separate boats last Thursday have been charged with various offences relating to both drug trafficking and human smuggling. Police seized more than 700lbs of ganja after tracking one of the boats to the West Bay shoreline, where it was abandoned near […]
Customs officer to face trial for drug smuggling
(CNS): David Lobo (32), from Bodden Town, has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a drug smuggling conspiracy in which around 1.8kg of cocaine were smuggled into Cayman using Colombian artefacts. Lobo, who is currently suspended from his job as a customs officer on paid required leave, has denied being involved in the drug […]
Marine cops net two drug boats
(CNS): The RCIPS Joint Marine Unit (JMU) has seized two boats and an undisclosed quantity of ganja and arrested five men in an operation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning. At about 4:30am on 25 January, the marine officers came across two boats acting suspiciously near the Big Channel entrance to North Sound. […]
K9 unit helps secure evidence in drug bust
(CNS): The police arrested a 38-year-old man from West Bay yesterday on suspicion of possession and consumption of ganja, following a drug raid in the district. The RCIPS said that an operation was conducted Wednesday morning on King Road under the Misuse of Drugs Law. When officers arrived at the address, they spotted a man […]
Customs net drug suspects in three separate cases
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Customs Department has arrested four people over the last week in three separate drug smuggling cases. On Friday, 12 January, customs officers arrested a 35-year-old Caymanian man and a 34-year-old woman from Trinidad who is a permanent resident here. They are accused of importing ganja through the local parcel post and are […]
Second man charged in East End drug haul robbery
(CNS): A 53-year-old Bodden Town man charged yesterday with various offences in connection with an incident at an East End resort in December, where staff were threatened after a cocaine haul washed up on the beach. He was the second person arrested in the Christmas Eve case, in which a masked man armed with a machete […]
Drugs wash ashore in Little Cayman
(CNS): Police have removed an undisclosed quantity of ganja from the beach on Little Cayman for destruction after a parcel of drugs washed ashore last Saturday evening, 23 December. The RCIPS said that a member of the public informed police on the Sister Island of the discovery along the shore and it was handed over […]
Drug smugglers working over holidays
(CNS): Three men are set to appear in court Wednesday after two separate incidents relating to drug smuggling around Grand Cayman. On Saturday, 23 December, officers from the RCIPS marine and air units intercepted a suspect blue and white drug canoe and seized an undisclosed quantity of ganja. Then on Christmas Eve a masked man […]
Six months after arrest men charged over guns
(CNS): Two men who were arrested six months ago on the shoreline in South Sound, George Town, over two guns and ammunition have now been charged and are due in court today. The men, aged 21 and 27, both from Bodden Town, were said to have been in possession of two semi-automatic handguns (a 9mm […]
