KINGSTON: The Jamaica Customs Agency’s Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) says it has seized more than 600 pounds of marijuana with a street value of more than three million dollars (One Jamaica dollar =US$0.008 cents).
In a statement, the CET said that together with officers from the Port Security Team they seized 605 pounds of marijuana at the Kingston Container Terminal on Wednesday with an approximate street value of J$3.9 million. The agency said that a detailed examination of the shipment led to the detection of five large packages containing 109 parcels of marijuana and that the shipment arrived from China en route to Suriname.