COPS DESTROY GANJA IN MOUNTAINSIDE

MOUNTAINSIDE, St Elizabeth -- About one and a half acres of fully-grown
ganja plants, 30,000 seedlings and 50 pounds of the cured weed were
destroyed by the police at Mountainside in St Elizabeth on Monday.

The police report that officers from the St Elizabeth division and members
of the Area 3 Narcotics Squad, carried out an operation at Mountainside
between the hours of 11:00 am and 5:00 pm.

During the operation, the policemen destroyed the mature plants, along with
the seedlings that were growing nearby. The cured ganja which was found at
the back of a house was burnt.

No arrest was made.

And a man who was wanted by the Duhaney Park Police in Kingston, in
connection with a double murder committed earlier this year, was Sunday
detained by the police at Union in St Elizabeth.

The man, a 25-year-old labourer of a Christopher Boulevard, Kingston 19
address, was held at about 9:30 pm after the Balaclava police received
information that he was hiding out in the area.

The police said, however, that his name was being withheld as he had not
been charged.