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ROYAL POLICE FORCE OF ANTIGUA & BARBUDA<\/em>
Office of Strategic Communications \u2013 STRATCOM<\/em><\/p>

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MEDIA RELEASE
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Another Cannabis Seizure at Airport Cargo Facility<\/em><\/p>

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St. John\u2019s, Antigua and Barbuda, Saturday, January 31, 2026<\/p>

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The police have made another cannabis seizure at the Custom Cargo Shed at V. C. Bird International Airport, in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At approximately 4:30 p.m. on Friday, January 30, officers attached to the Narcotics Department and the Customs Enforcement Unit, discovered a cardboard box with eleven (11) vacuum-sealed packages containing vegetable material resembling the controlled drug cannabis.<\/p>

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The packages were seized and transported to Police Headquarters, where they were weighed and found to amount to thirteen (13) pounds, with an estimated street value of EC$78,000.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, a similar operation resulted in the seizure of over thirteen pounds of cannabis with an estimated street value of EC $79,200.00<\/p>

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Investigations into both seizures remain ongoing.<\/p>

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