{"id":30041,"date":"2013-01-09T08:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30041"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:35:41","slug":"concern-rises-over-escalating-drug-shipments-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/concern-rises-over-escalating-drug-shipments-at-airport","title":{"rendered":"Concern Rises Over Drug Shipments At Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/concern-rises-over-escalating-drug-shipments-at-airport-30041.html\/greenslade-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30044\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30044\" title=\"greenslade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greenslade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greenslade.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/greenslade-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade showed concern over the growing use of the Lynden Pindling International Airport as a transshipment point for illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Greenslade told The Tribue that his officers have made &#8220;significant drug seizures&#8221; at the airport, noting that a majority of th busts involved passengers arriving on commercial flights from South America.<\/p>\n<p>In his overall crime statistics review for 2012, Commissioner Greenslade said that of the 578.75 points of cocaine confiscated last year, 137.49 points were seized at LPIA, estimated at a street value of $2.06 million. Police also confiscated 15.2 pounds of liquid cocaine, 9.5 pounds of heroin, and 15.98 pounds of marijuana at LPIA.<\/p>\n<p>These confiscations resulted in 23 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, police seized a total of 152.5 pounds of cocaine from all airports and docks in the country, and 475.55 pounds of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>In October of last year, Assistant Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said police are keeping a close eye on passengers coming in from Panama after several were caught attempting to smuggle drugs into the country.<\/p>\n<p>ACP Ferguson\u2019s comments came after a 27-year-old woman was arrested when found in possession of two and a half kilos of what was suspected to be cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>He said police have been noticing a trend with people coming in from Panama and are keeping close watch on those flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police have been vigilant with people coming in from Panama. We are watching trends and we saw a pattern. So over the last few months you would have seen increased interdiction from persons coming in from Panama on that airline,\u201d ACP Ferguson told The Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade showed concern over the growing use of the Lynden Pindling International Airport as a transshipment point for illegal drugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[67,814,38],"class_list":["post-30041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-drugs","tag-ellison-greenslade","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}