Major drug bust in Montego Bay
October 25, 2006
A major narcotics operation, which targeted illegal drug dealers in Montego Bay, St. James, paid rich dividends last week, when the police seized cocaine with a street value of $12 million.
They also seized 135 pounds of compressed ganja, while arresting at least seven people, including an attorney-at-law from Toronto, Canada.
Head of the Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, said 25 pounds of the cocaine was discovered in the customs hall of the Norman Manley International Airport, Kingston, last week.
Another 89 pellets (2.2 pounds) more cocaine was found at the Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, last Thursday. Reports are that 33-year-old barber, Keith Daley, of a Bristol address in the United Kingdom, was in the process of boarding a flight to Heathrow International Airport, when he was stopped and interviewed. He was suspected of having swallowed crack/cocaine.
According to narcotics investigators, Mr. Daley was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later passed out the 89 pellets of crack/cocaine. Mr. Daley appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on Monday and was found guilty. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term and fined more than $250,000. The intelligence-driven operations in Montego Bay took place between October 14 and 19.
Upscale community
It has been further reported that members of the Montego Bay narcotics team swooped down on a house in the upscale community of Paradise in the capital. Three persons, including a common-law couple, Howel Clarke, 39, and Julieth Smith, 45, were arrested....
Author: Glenroy Sinclair
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
