WESTERN BUREAU:
THE AREA One Police Narcotics Section, with headquarters in Montego Bay, said they seized nearly 1,600 lb. of cocaine in Hanover on the weekend, but came up empty-handed in their efforts to nab the persons who were handling it.
The police say the vehicle in which the cocaine was found has been traced to a man in Hanover, but they have so far made no arrests in connection with the find.
THREE-DAY OPERATION
The seizure was the culmination of a three-day special operation by the narcotics police in the parish. Reports are that about 5 a.m. on Saturday, the Area One Narcotics police, assisted by the Jamaica Defence Force Air Wing, went to Tamarind Hill.
A blue Toyota Hiace panel van, which the police had under surveillance, was spotted parked in a vacant lot. The police said they searched the vehicle and found in it 26 bales of cocaine weighing 1,596 lb. (725 kilograms).
The narcotics police attribute their find to information resulting from increased co-operation between Jamaican and Colombian drug enforcement agents.
