GANJA WEIGHING 1,000 lb. and with an estimated street value of US$2.5 million ($105 million), was seized yesterday by the Kingston Eastern police at Harbour Head. They arrested two men in connection with the find.
A parcel with 5 lb. of hashish, attracting a street value of US$500,000 ($21 million), was also found. Also, the police seized a 32-foot boat, the "Private Air", which they said was to have headed to a Caribbean destination with the illicit cargo.
Detectives including Senior Supt. Carl Williams, head of the Narcotics Division, and SSP G.C. Grant of CIB Headquarters, visited the Kingston Eastern Division yesterday to probe the big drug find.
Detectives said they went to Harbour Head about 1 a.m. on a tip and saw several men loading the "Private Air". The men jumped into the water when they saw the police, who searched the area and found the two suspects who they said are in their 30s. The police said the other men who were loading the boat escaped.
The police searched the boat and found 22 rice bags packed with vegetable matter resembling ganja.
When The Gleaner visited the scene yesterday, the ganja was neatly packed in several bags and several articles of male clothing, books and other personal belongings were about to be loaded into a Police Narcotics Division vehicle.
Detectives said one of the men held yesterday was a suspect in the murder of Kingston gas station operator Sylvia Edwards, 48, who was abducted on Red Hills Road, St. Andrew, in July. She was found in a shallow grave in University Heights, St. Andrew, the following day.
Deputy Supt. Clifton Laing in charge of crime in the Kingston Eastern Division, said the suspect is expected to be interviewed again this week.
