What’s thought to be the largest drug seizure by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service in the past four years was made Tuesday in North Side.
RCIPS K-9 Unit officers were out on a training exercise along Queen’s Highway near the monument when one of the police dogs, Monty, hit on the drug’s scent. Police said this occurred during regularly scheduled training and the officers had no previous indication that the drugs were there.
A police spokesperson said 3,200 pounds of ganja was found in the bush wrapped in packaging. The area the drugs were found in is a sparsely populated area of North Side district.
No arrests had been made in connection with the drug seizure. RCIPS staff was processing the evidence including testing for fingerprints and DNA samples at press time.
Police estimated the drugs have a possible street value of some $12 million.
Tuesday’s seizure dwarfs the previous largest ganja bust made in Cayman this year, which also occurred in North Side. Police said a fast canoe carrying 1,000 pounds of the drug was stopped by the Marine Unit and the Cayman Helicopters craft back in February.
Four men and a woman were spotted by the helicopter heaving bales of what appeared to be ganja over the side of the canoe. Some of the bales washed up on shore in residents’ beachfront properties.
But Tuesday’s bust was less than half the amount taken during an RCIPS operation in 2003. Officers said 7,000 pounds of ganja was seized in that case.
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