FNID: Arrests being made despite new trends in drug trafficking

 

The Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force says it is seeing more new and emerging trends in narco trafficking. 

 

Officer attached to the Area 3 FNID, Detective Corporal Dwight Morgan, says drug traffickers have been using ingenious methods to sneak narcotics through the country's borders. 

 

But Corporal Morgan says the police remain abreast of the illicit trade and continue to make arrests across the island.

 

"We have made some significant arrests and, if you keep abreast with the news, there was a recent very large cocaine seizure made at the ports, and internally we are making arrest on a daily basis. One of the most ingenious ways I have seen is the cocaine being liquefied and soaked into jeans, dried and then moved from one country to the next. Jeans pants, jeans suit; we have seen the ganja being woven into hair, and I think one of the most alarming ones I have seen is where a gentleman coming from Colombia to the United States, slit his thighs, put a package of cocaine in it and get the doctor to stitch it and then bandage it, and then he was moving through the ports," he recounted.

 

Detective Corporal Morgan was speaking during a recent exhibit at the Social Development Commission's Manchester Inter-Agency Network event. 

 

He also expressed concern about the impact of the drug trade on children and the economy. He also cautioned law abiding citizens to be mindful when traveling through the country's ports of entry.