by Linda Straker
- Over EC$700,000 in cannabis labelled as evidence disappeared from police storage facility
- Rear end of the building had structural deficiencies
- Nine civilians, inclusive of 2 juveniles all residents of St Patrick, arrested and charged
Police in Grenada have confirmed that almost EC$700,000 in cannabis confiscated over a period of time and labelled as evidence in ongoing court matters has disappeared from the storage facility at the police station in the northern parish of St Patrick.
Nine civilians, inclusive of 2 juveniles were arrested and charged over the weekend for stealing a quantity of marijuana which was in a storage facility that is part of the structure of the police station.
“Officers assigned to the station noticed the disappearance of drugs over a period of time and took remedial action. Consequently, investigations revealed that individuals fished out marijuana from the rear end of the building due to structural deficiencies,” said a news release from the Community Relations Department of the Royal Grenada Police Force.
Police did not confirm if surveillance cameras attached to the building or nearby buildings assisted in identifying the suspects during the investigations that led to the arrest of the individuals.
Facing charges are Ron and Ronnie Stanislaus of Glebe Street who are charged for Handling a Controlled Drug. Marvin Jeremiah, 34 years, Boat Builder of Mt Craven; Carlos Williams, 32 years, Fisherman of Mt Craven; Kimon Alexander, 21 years and Kimani Alexander 20 years, Fishermen of Glebe Street; Travis Fullerton, 28 years, Farmer of Mt Craven, and 2 juveniles — all residents of St Patrick — were charged for Handling a Controlled Drug and Stealing a quantity of Cannabis valued at EC$721,224.
The release said that the structural deficiency of the building has since been resolved and police investigations are ongoing in the matter.
I have had time to study this incident a bit more and I have a few questions to ask the officer in charge as follows ;
1) Where the drugs was stolen, is it a secure and well guarded area ?
2) Is the Police Station where the drugs held were active 24 hours a day ?
3) How many active cases evidence are connected with the drugs that was stolen ?
Depending on the answers given it should be a bit easier to identify who is responsible for this crime which in my opinion has nothing to do with the 9 (Nine) suspects used to make it look like an outside job.
Even a blind man can see this has nothing to do with those nine suspects and any good police would investigate this crime by interviewing all nine and I am sure they will get some interesting answers.
Just to put a spanner in the works…I have never heard of anyone breaking into a police station in Grenada…..let alone 9!!!
“Fishing out” does not constitute “breaking in”, as per our criminal code.
Yes, it is true that only 2 of the accused are identified as professional Fishermen.
It’s about time to make it legal.
This in one of many failures on the police in our country.
Too many of our police are involved in illegal activities and it is about time they are brought to justice.
We have too many corrupt police officers still in active duty at the moment and they are the ones giving the police a bad name.
This incident in St Patrick’s is no outside matter but nor is it a one of incident.
All the information relating to this crime must of came from inside so they better start looking at the connection with some of the suspects.
Police are corrupt, we all know this to be true.