Tag: drug crime
Guns found in bust over sex crime
(CNS): Police recovered a pistol, an adapted flare gun and ammunition during a search of a North Side home on Friday, which followed a man’s arrested for indecent assault. Officers also found 12lbs of suspected ganja, drug paraphernalia and some $2,000 in cash at the home of the 29-year-old man, who was first arrested on […]
Cops clamp down on Rum Point nuisance
(CNS): With the return of the freedom to socialise since the lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions, anti-social behaviour has also returned to Rum Point. Police said they have received complaints from the community about drug activity, loud music, speeding and drunk drivers at the popular weekend beach spot. So on Sunday police conducted a full-scale […]
Beach-walkers stumble over cocaine
(CNS): Members of the public who were walking on the beach in South Sound on Monday evening called the police after they stumbled across a package of what looked like cocaine that had washed ashore. The suspected drug bundle appeared to have been in the sea for some time, police said in a statement. It […]
West Bay man arrested after two home raids
(CNS): Police recovered what is assumed to be just a small quantity of ganja from a West Bay home and arrested a 34 year-old-man for possession after two organised busts yesterday in the district. Officers executed two search warrant on Thursday morning, the first just after 7:00am at an address on Capt Reginald Parsons Drive, […]
56lbs of ganja found by members of the public
(CNS): Two different members of the public alerted the authorities yesterday to hauls of ganja they had found in local waters in two separate districts, which weighed a total of 56lbs. One person found a package in the water off Andresen Road in West Bay, while another found a package floating in the sea off […]
750lbs of ganja found on West Bay beach
(CNS): Thirty packages containing around 750lbs of ganja were found yesterday on a beach on the north shore in West Bay. Police said officers on patrol in the district recovered the contraband on a beach off Conch Point Road on Wednesday, 22 July. It is not clear if it was the officers who found the […]
Couple charged after cops seize 240lbs ganja
(CNS): A 22-year-old woman from George Town and a 27-year-old man from of East End have been charged with drug offences after a search in Prospect Friday evening turned up over 240lbs of ganja. As police arrived at the address at around 6pm, a man carrying a suitcase left the house in a Jeep. But […]
Cops arrests suspect coke dealer
(CNS): A 53-year-old man from George Town was arrested Friday on suspicion of dealing cocaine following a police raid at an address on Rock Hole Road. The bust was based on concerns from the public that drugs were being sold from a specific premises. During the search officers found an undisclosed quantity of cocaine and […]
Newball charged with list of crimes
(CNS): Simon Julio Newball (44) from George Town has been charged with a long list of crimes after being on the run from the law for a month. He was apprehended on Thursday and again resisted arrest more than four weeks after he had previously escaped the police, when he used pepper spray on officers […]
WB men arrested, 750lbs ganja hauled from sea
(CNS) UPDATED: Cayman Islands Coast Guard officers recovered 750lbs of ganja from the sea some 14 miles off the coast of Grand Cayman yesterday, after crews from the new agency spotted a suspicious vessel while on border patrol. Two West Bay men, aged 33 and 36, have now been charged with possession and importation of […]
Newball still on run but cops make related arrests
(CNS): Three people were arrested for drug related offences after police searched a home in George Town on Friday looking for Julio Simon Newball (43). Officers executed a search warrant at an address on Fairlawn Drive as part of the manhunt for the wanted man. Newball has been on the run since 27 May, when […]
