Three Bahamians arrested in relation to major drug bust in western Jamaica

The Narcotics Police and members of the Jamaica Defence Force on Thursday, seized over two thousand six hundred pounds of compressed ganja.

The police say three Bahamian Nationals were arrested in the western parish in relation to the seizure. 

Reports from the Narcotics Police are that between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., lawmen carried out an operation at a premises in Lancer Bay, Hanover, where approximately two thousand six hundred pounds of compressed ganja was seized.

It is alleged that the drug has an estimated street value of ten million five hundred thousand dollars (10,500,000 JMD).

Police reports say the operation also extended to Negril, Westmoreland where the three Bahamian nationals who illegally entered the island to ship drugs abroad, were arrested and placed in quarantine. 

Their identities are being withheld pending further investigations.

All three men will be interviewed in the presence of their attorney.

The Police have appealed to citizens to be mindful that, it is a criminal offence to harbour foreign nationals who illegally entered the country, and they should report any such information to the police.

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