Glenroy Sinclair, Senior Crime Reporter

Narcotics detectives are probing a multimillion-dollar drug link between an importer in the United Kingdom and a Jamaican exporter, following another major drug find at the APM Terminal, Port Bustamante, in Kingston, on Saturday.

A container with 269 packages of compressed ganja, which weighed over 2,141 pounds, was discovered among a shipment of banana chips and teabags. This was confirmed by head of the Narcotics Division, Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson.

Three being questioned

Reports are that a business-woman and two of her accomplices are now being questioned, while narcotics detectives continue to search for the other players who are involved.

The drug, which has an estimated street value of more than J$15 million, was destined for London. According to the paperwork, the container was being shipped by M/Enterprise Limited, of a Slipe Road address, Kingston.

Top sleuths from the Narcotics Department have since learned that the local export company did exist, but the owner died three months ago. Its present location was converted into a furniture company.

There have been several large ganja finds in Clarendon, St. Ann and Kingston over the past seven weeks. This has endorsed the comments made by SSP Wilson, that ganja production was again on the increase, as a result of the massive dent in the cocaine trade.

According to the officer, last weekend the police destroyed approximately 1,898 pounds of cocaine and 6,111 pounds of compressed ganja, with a street value of over $400 million.