Friday, May 16, 2025
By EARYEL BOWLEG
Tribune Staff Reporter
ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FIVE Bahamian men were arrested after authorities found 66 crocus sacks filled with cocaine and marijuana estimated to have a street value of $8.8m near Acklins.
Superintendent Wendy Pearson said the arrests stemmed from a joint operation conducted around 4.05pm on Wednesday. The operation involved Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), the Drug Enforcement Unit, the US Coast Guard, US Air Marine Support, and local police from Acklins and Crooked Island.
Authorities observed a white speedboat near Long Cay, where several men were seen offloading packages onto a truck. The truck was later seen entering a residence, where the same people were observed unloading the packages into a shed.
Superintendent Pearson said local officers were alerted and responded to the residence. There, they found five Bahamian men, aged 25 to 36, and directed them to the shed. In plain view, officers saw multiple crocus sacks, which, upon examination, were found to contain marijuana and cocaine.
The suspects were taken into custody and transported to New Providence for further investigation.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Roberto Goodman expressed concern about the continued drug trafficking into The Bahamas, especially in the southern islands. He referenced a previous seizure of over 400 kilos of drugs in Grand Bahama and another in December involving a plane crash near Long Cay. He emphasised the importance of collaborative efforts with US counterparts, which he said helped intercept the drugs before they could reach the streets.
Comments
whatsup says...
Thank you OPBAT, The Drug Enforcement Unit, The US Coast Guard and The US Marine Support, if it were not for you, nobody would have seen anything.
Posted 16 May 2025, 1:11 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
What is going on in Acklins? Every other millisecond a plane, now boat, crashing through loaded with drugs
Posted 17 May 2025, 8:15 a.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
Maybe just legalize the drugs and eliminate the underground drug trade.
Is there really something that much worse than the legal alcohol?
Do your homework and see who is the biggest drug cartel in the world.
Hint. It is a government.
Supply and demand. At least the drug runners provide a service.
What do politicians do except live off of other people's hard work and money?
We gave up on critical thinking some years ago.
Now, we've almost lost the ability, haven't we?
Wasn't this country founded on pirating and rum running?
Posted 17 May 2025, 9:26 a.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
I was thinking the other day that the two worst things in the world are drugs and sex. Both were actually designed with beautiful applications that still exist today, but both have been hijacked by evil forces to bamboozle and enslave mankind.
Just look at puffy. Tiger Woods. Epstein. Nygard. Sodom and Gomorrah. All given over to reprobate minds and enslaved by one of or both drugs and sex. Alcohol is a drug. Marijuana is a drug. Cocaine is a drug. Sex can be a drug. All can be addictive. All when misused and overused destroy minds and turn people into demons.
Theres no this one better than that and theres no space for just legalize it so we wont waste time trying to stomp it out. It's dangerous talk.
A Canadian study was released this year that showed a direct relationship between legalizing marijuana and increase in marijuana use among underage children. Precisely what we do not need. The only Province that did not experience an increase in underage marijuana use was Quebec, the one province that resisted the fashionable, it's narural, make everything legal line.
My theory has been all along that just the act of legalizing a thing sends the message to the teenage mind that would not under normal circumstances tried an illegal substance, that this thing is ok, because if it wasnt, it wouldnt have been legalized. And telling them, they're too young it doesnt apply to them is just the challenge teenagers dont need.
Posted 18 May 2025, 4:14 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
Maybe I should say the two things in the world that have been misused with greatest negative impact. Because the thing itself is not the evil.
Posted 18 May 2025, 4:20 p.m. Suggest removal
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