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Haiti - Security : Seizure of 651 kg of narcotics off the Bay of Les Cayes
16/08/2020 09:38:24

Friday August 14, as part of Operation "Terminator I" launched Friday August 7 by Rameau Normil, the acting Director General of the National Police of Haiti (PNH), a joint operation of agents of the Brigade of Fight Against the Drug Trafficking (BLTS) and those of the Coast Guard made it possible to seize on the high seas in the Bay of Les Cayes region, approximately 651 kg of marijuana aboard a blue and red boat, coming from the Jamaica.

3 Jamaicans : Simory Burnett (36) aka "Simo," Ricardo Donald (36) aka "Mudman" and Germaine Dailey (36) and 1 Haitian Marc Antoine Dorcin (39) aka "Panan" were arrested on board of the boat, accused of illicit drug trafficking.

The rowboat and the drugs were placed under seal by the judicial authorities.

Remember that this is the second seizure at sea this month after that of 670kg of marijuana in the bay of Port-Salut on August 6 https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-31491-haiti-news-zapping.html when 2 Jamaicans had been arrested.

HL/ HaitiLibre