MORE THAN 70 pounds of compressed ganja and a pound of cocaine were seized during separate police operations in St. Ann and Kingston by the narcotics police and the elite Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF) on Tuesday.
Under the new leadership of Senior Superintendent Donald Pusey, the SACTF has been the most successful of the three special squads restructured recently, to tackle the country's crime problem, under the Government's new crime-fighting initiative.
Reports are that, after imposing a 48-hour curfew in sections of Southside in Central Kingston on the weekend, the SACTF returned to the community on Monday and conducted a snap raid, near the Tower Street Adult Correctional facility.
Several premises along Thompson Avenue were searched. Woman Constable Jean McDonald said 10 pounds of compressed ganja and a pound of cocaine were found on separate premises.
She said Alrick Williams of a Waterloo Road address, Kingston 3, has since been arrested in connection with the drug seizure, while three other men were detained.
Head of the island's Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carl Williams, told The Gleaner yesterday that two Bahamian nationals and a Jamaican were jailed in connection with 60 pounds of ganja found in an apartment where they were staying.
The police reported that members of the narcotics team based in Ocho Rios, raided premises at the Sky Castle Apartments in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, where Desno Scott, a 27-year-old computer technician and Wendel Smith, a plumber, both of Bahamas, and a Jamaican national, Donovan Merize, a 36-year-old fisherman of Ocho Rios, were found with the drug.
They have been charged under the Dangerous Drug Act, with possession of and dealing in ganja.
