Saturday, February 23, 2019
Six mail boat crew members are in police custody after a firearm and a large quantity of drugs were found on their vessel on Friday night.
According to reports, shortly before 8pm, South Eastern Division and K-9 officers searched the mail boat at Potter’s Cay Dock. They discovered two taped boxes containing six packages of suspected marijuana, a pistol and a magazine with 11 live rounds of 9mm ammunition.
The estimated weight of the drugs is 30 pounds. Five men and a woman were taken into custody for questioning.
Comments
sheeprunner12 says...
DUHHHHH ............... who ever checks the cargo or crew & passengers aboard mail boats???? ......... They come and go, from port to port, with no oversight by the RBPF or RBDF.
Posted 23 February 2019, 6:36 p.m. Suggest removal
pingmydling says...
These poor innocent traders quietly going about their inter-island business, suddenly
accosted and arrested by the jack-booted gendarmerie. Don't these inquisitors know that in most, so called "civilized societies", a little pot is now legal. ---- Oops, sorry, I forgot we are not one of those societies----- silly me.
Posted 24 February 2019, 6:23 a.m. Suggest removal
pingmydling says...
Sheeprunner you right. Somebody ratted them out!!!!!!
Posted 24 February 2019, 7:18 a.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
actually they do check the boats for immigration violations and look for drugs too. not everyday, but they do.
the mailboat helps a lot of people for low cost freight and transportation.
to send a single envelope on bahamasair is 23.00 plus vat. on the mail boat is 3 dollars plus vat.
Posted 24 February 2019, 10:26 a.m. Suggest removal
pingmydling says...
My friend far be it for me to disagree with your post. However not a month passes when
I take the mail to to Harbour Island, Governors, George Town, etc. Never once in all these years
Did the authorities ever check the boat I was on. I ride the Current Pride weekly, the only passengers are Haitians. _______ Are there any checks by the Gestapo ----- never.
So actually you are incorrect.
Posted 24 February 2019, 10:56 a.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
well i was there when immigration and police came on the boat.
there were bahamians, mad dogs and englishmen on the boat.
Posted 24 February 2019, 11:06 p.m. Suggest removal
Greentea says...
Why isn’t the boat named?
Posted 24 February 2019, 7:08 p.m. Suggest removal
pingmydling says...
ondrape ??? I think you must fit either of your last two categories. The boat is not named
because its the " Marie Celeste".; or was it the Black Pearl?
Posted 25 February 2019, 5:43 a.m. Suggest removal
pvmtengr says...
Drugs are bad, m’kay?
Posted 25 February 2019, 12:46 p.m. Suggest removal
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