Jamaica: 4 people had been held by the cops on obligation together with three males and a girl and seized compressed ganja from the possession within the locality of Saint Mary. The amount of recovered compressed ganja weighed round 100 kilos which was seized on Thursday, 18 April.
As per the sources, the invention of the unlawful possession of the ganja within the compressed kind was made on the day whereas a group of cops was on an operation within the space of Saint Mary, a parish within the northeastern a part of Jamaica.
The motion was taken by a group of assigned cops from the Space 2 Narcotics Police Division who had been conducting an train alongside the principle roads within the localities of Retreat and Rio Nuevo on the time of the evening. The officers on obligation had been stopping and looking out the motor automobiles travelling alongside the best way.
Within the strategy of cease and search train of a number of motor automobiles, the cops signalled the drivers of the 2 suspected motor automobiles, which had been a Toyota Noah automotive 2014 mannequin of black color and a Toyota Axio automotive 2013 mannequin of gray color.
In response to the sign by the cops on the sector, the drivers of each motor automobiles obeyed the orders and slowed down however instantly tried to flee from the scene as they obtained an opportunity. Nevertheless, the police officers managed to dam the automobiles in the best way after which the moment search was performed.
Reportedly, the 2 suspected automobiles had been searched within the course of and it was talked about that the officers discovered twenty counts of knitted baggage. On the examination of the baggage in Saint Mary, the cops discovered 100 and eighteen parcels containing ganja in compressed kind.
Ultimately, the amount of found ganja was seized by the cops on obligation and the 4 suspects had been arrested for the offence of possessing a inventory of unlawful objects. Among the many suspects, one was a girl who was additionally taken into custody for additional proceedings.
The persons are saying within the discovery of ganja in Saint Mary by police, “Why is ganja possession nonetheless a criminal exercise in Jamaica or wherever within the area in 2024? It’s time to cease criminalising our folks and transfer to combine the commerce in ganja into our economies even when it means decriminalising the ‘drug’ inside every home house. Why is that this so laborious to do?”
