On Monday April 8th 2013 at approximately 12.30 p.m. the Police Department conducted a raid in the thick bushes on the hill between Brills drive in Middle Region and Gibbs drive in Dutch quarter after receiving information of a large marihuana plantation that was located in that area.
The police not being acquainted with area had to take time to plan the raid and not go into the area not knowing what to expect. Going blindly into any type of raid without a plan and the necessary equipment, the chances are that the officers are confronted with the unexpected and could even end up getting injured.
Approximately 20 police officers participated in the operation which took approximately four and a half hours. At the site the investigating officers located several plots of the land that were prepared for planting and several plots of land on which a very large amount of marihuana plants were already growing. The entire plantation was quite large and was well taken care of on a daily basis. The caretakers would spend the whole day working; cooking and sleeping on the plantation. On the arrival of the officers the caretakers had already left the scene. Several fully grown pit-bull dogs were used to protect the plantation; however a police dog handler dealt with them during the operation and posed no threat. The garden hoses lead the investigating officers to an apartment building on Gibb’s drive in Dutch Quarter where one man with the initials Z.D.A. from Jamaica was arrested as a suspect in this case. A wooden structure located in the vicinity of Romeo Drive on that same property was searched a shotgun and bullets were found and confiscated. Over 3000 marihuana plants, garden hoses, fertilizer and other garden equipment were also confiscated.
This case is under investigation by the Narcotics Department.