Tag: drug crime
65lb ganja haul seized by West Bay cops
(CNS): Around 65lbs has been seized by police following a drug bust at a house in the Mount Pleasant area of West Bay. The police raided a house on Sunday morning along with officers from the customs and immigration departments. The police gave no other details of the raid and made no mention of any arrests […]
Cops clamp down at weekend leisure spot
(CNS): Police were out in force in and around Rum Point, Sunday, patrolling the area to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, they said. Officers also set up a roadblock near the Frank Sound Road-Bodden Town Road junction in an effort to address other issues such as drinking and driving, drug misuse, and illegal bikers and […]
Wanted man rounded up at WB Road restaurant
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from West Bay who was wanted by police in connection with a firearm incident in February was arrested on Saturday afternoon at a restaurant on West Bay Road. Police heard that the man had been spotted and, just before 3:15pm, officers from the Criminal Investigations Department went to the restaurant to […]
Jamaican fugitive rounded up in joint operation
(CNS): Immigration, customs and police were all involved in a George Town drug bust, Friday, in which a Jamaican man, in Cayman illegally, was rounded up and arrested for possession of ganja. Officials said the arrest was a “successful joint tactical operation” after immigration officers learned that illegal people were residing and concealing drugs in the […]
Cops seize ganja plants found in Frank Sound
(CNS): Police seized around 80 ganja plants that were growing in about three dozen pots in an open lot in the Frank Sound Road area following a search on Tuesday morning, 25 July. After the RCIPS received a tip-off from the public about the plants just after 9:00am, officers from the Eastern Districts carried out the […]
Crown pursues case against immigration official
(CNS): The crown has confirmed it will be pressing ahead with its case against Assistant Chief Immigration Officer Jeannie Lewis (58). The senior immigration official has pleaded not guilty to assisting a person to land illegally and permitting premises to be used for consumption of drugs. She and four other people were arrested at her […]
Second man charged in WB gun bust
(CNS): A 41-year-old man from West Bay has been charged with various gun related offences following a raid at a home in the district earlier this month. He is the second man to face serious criminal charges in the wake of the bust on 6 July, in which four illegal guns, an undisclosed quantity of […]
West Bay man charged following raid
(CNS): The police have charged a local man with ten firearms and drugs offences following a raid last week at his West Bay home, where they recovered four firearms and ammunition as well as cash and drugs. The 40-year-old man was charged over the weekend with four counts of possessing an unlicensed firearm in relation […]
Four guns and ammo found at one WB home
(CNS): A 40-year-old man was arrested after police found two air-pistols, one revolver handgun, one semi-automatic handgun and several rounds of ammunition at his home in West Bay during a police raid at around 7:30 Thursday evening. The officers also found a large amount of ganja and a large amount of cash in both Cayman Islands […]
Police go after homeless in GT squat
(CNS): The police have arrested five people who were living in a squat in the Rock Hole area of George Town. Three men, aged 63, 53 and 24, and two woman, aged 40 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of several offenses following a raid early Sunday morning. Police said they were joined by immigration […]
Missing suspect gives himself up in Jamaica
(CNS) Jerome Calbert (26) has turned himself into the Jamaican Authorities, police have said. Calbert, who was believed to have been in the Cayman Islands illegally, went on the run following a police drug bust in North Side on Sunday 18 June with another Jamaican national, Garth Stewart (43). Stewart, who was also said to […]
