Three fields of drugs discovered in Long Island

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

DRUG Enforcement Unit officers uprooted more than 1,000 marijuana plants on Tuesday from three fields discovered in Long Island.

According to police, around 10am, officers in Long Island with officials from Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) were on routine patrol, when they discovered three marijuana fields with just over 1,000 plants in bushes situated in the northern end of Long Island.

The marijuana plants were all uprooted, however no arrests were made in this incident.

Investigations into this discovery continue.

Last month, police uprooted more than 4,000 marijuana plants after officers from the DEU discovered three large marijuana fields in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.

Officer-in-charge of the DEU, Superintendent Samuel Butler said the huge discovery – one of the biggest for the year – was made near the southern end of Marsh Harbour.

According to earlier police reports, Bahamian police with officers from (OPBAT) were on routine patrol when they discovered three large marijuana fields in the pine forest last month.

Those marijuana plants, which range from six inches to six feet in height, were all uprooted.

No arrest was made in this incident, but investigations are continuing.

According to drug statistics provided by the Royal Bahamas Police Force in January, there was a sharp increase in the number of marijuana plants seized by police in 2014 – with 290,336 plants seized as opposed to the 27,746 seized in 2013.

Grand Bahama had the highest number of seized marijuana plants, with 287,812 found in 2014.

Comments

TruePeople says...

My Bey, i thought we were supposed to be promoting agriculture in these islands? No wonder times is getting hard, every time i plant a seed, they say kill it before it grows

Posted 24 September 2015, 4:02 p.m. Suggest removal

sealice says...

YEA YOU DON'T HERE FWEDDY SINGIN DAT SONG

Posted 24 September 2015, 4:47 p.m. Suggest removal

sheeprunner12 says...

You need to ask the PLP what has they done to promote any kind of employment on Long Island???? ........... We had two terrible hurricanes back to back four years ago and NOTHING has been done to improve the infrastructure or economy of the island ....... the island needs investment.............. otherwise, desperate people will do desperate things

Posted 24 September 2015, 7:28 p.m. Suggest removal

Stanley says...

Growing weed isn't 'desperate'. It will soon be 'legal; in Canada.

Backwards as ever.

Posted 22 October 2015, 10:56 a.m. Suggest removal

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