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Two arrested in connection with drug seizure

GRAND Bahama Police arrested two people in connection with the seizure of $21,000-worth of illegal drugs on Friday.

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Man admits possession of $750,000 worth of drugs

KENDAL Hepburn, a 39-year-old of Mackey Street, admitted to being in possession of $750,000 worth of cocaine and marijuana seized by DEU officers earlier this week.

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Police discover thousands of marijuana plants

DRUG Enforcement Officers have arrested a 50-year-old man and are searching for two individuals who are behind a huge marijuana field found on Monday.

Man arrested for possession of dangerous drugs

A 27-year-old man from Bailey Town has been arrested in Bimini for possession of dangerous drugs. According to police reports, officers were in the area of a nightclub on the island shortly after 1am yesterday when they searched a young man who was allegedly found in possession of a quantity of what was suspected to be marijuana.

Mechanic in drug trafficking case 'had fallen on hard times'

A MECHANIC who accepted responsibility for his role in the trafficking of $521,000 worth of marijuana had resorted to the drug trade because he had fallen on hard times, a magistrate was told yesterday.

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$1,300 fine over marijuana

A MAN was fined $1,300 yesterday after he pleaded guilty to possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.

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Four arraigned on drugs charges

FOUR people including a 63-year-old man were arraigned on drug charges before Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez yesterday.

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Court of Appeal upholds prison sentence for three drug convicts

THREE men convicted of having $1.6m worth of marijuana off the coast of Andros in 2019 had their three-year prison sentence upheld yesterday by the Court of Appeal.

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‘PAY $1,500 FINE OVER DRUGS OR GO TO JAIL’

A 57-year-old man who was found with over four ounces of marijuana last week was yesterday ordered to pay $1,500 or spend eight months in prison.

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Man who hid drugs stash in wall claimed they were for sister’s cancer treatment

A MAN was sentenced to 24 months in prison yesterday Kendal Nairn, 33, appeared before Magistrate Andrew Forbes facing a charge of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply concerning a seizure by police on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2016 in Montell Heights.

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Sentence for pilot in drugs case upheld

THE Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s conviction and three year sentence for a pilot found guilty of cocaine possession with intent to supply.

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Man and woman arrested after drugs found

A MAN and a woman were arrested after police allegedly found them with one pound of marijuana.

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Man fined $600 for possession of marijuana, another man fined $500

A MAN was fined $600 after admitting to having over six and a half ounces of marijuana in his house earlier this week.

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Man fined over drugs and money laundering

A MAN was fined in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday in relation to charges of drugs and money-laundering.

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Man charged in connection with $1million drug bust

A MAN was granted $30,000 bail in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday in connection with a $1 million drug bust off the coast of Grand Bahama in 2018.

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Police officer 'found firearm, drugs at man's home'

A POLICE officer on Friday testified as to how he found a firearm and a quantity of drugs at a man’s residence last year.

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Firearm, ammunition and drugs recovered by police

OVER the weekend the police recovered a firearm, and a quantity of ammunition and dangerous drugs from the streets of Nassau.

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Three women accused of smuggling drugs

THREE women accused of smuggling drugs and other items into the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services were charged in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

Gunpoint robbery

A business was robbed at gunpoint and two men were arrested in connection with possession of dangerous drugs in Freeport, police reported.

Pair accused of cocaine smuggling

By LAMECH JOHNSON