ST JOSEPH police officers yesterday raided a Bedasie Street, St Augustine apartment occupied by a university student and discovered a greenhouse with healthy, thriving marijuana trees growing and high grade marijuana seedlings purchased in the United States. The illegal herb found is worth $500,000. According to reports the owner of the apartment reported to police a high marijuana scent emanating from the student’s apartment and at about 7 am, officers led by Insp Sieudass and including Sgt Vetus Hernandez, Cpl Chadee and others broke down the door to the apartment and discovered the marijuana in the greenhouse equipped with heat producing lamps to mimic the sun, fertilisers and other agro equipment. The greenhouse was set up in two of the three rooms of the fully air-conditioned apartment and contained 60 fully grown marijuana trees and four trays containing seedlings. Booklets on how to grow ‘hydro marijuana’ were also found. Officers also found a quantity of bubble wrap bags which the university student used to package the marijuana for sale. Officers also found a diary containing names and contact numbers for several persons who are believed to be clients of the student. Newsday understands the student was not in the apartment at the time of the raid and a search is now underway for him. The apartment complex has 16 other apartments and police believe that some of the clients of the student may have known about the illegal marijuana greenhouse. Police have since identified the wanted student as a 23-year-old from Central who majors in chemistry at university. Officials from the university have been contacted and told to alert police if the student turns up for classes. Officers are advising landlords to carry out regular, unannounced inspection of apartments to ensure their tenants are not engaged in illegal activities. The owner of the apartment said she rented it to the student late last year and had no idea the apartment was being used to grow and trade in marijuana. Police believe the student’s university colleagues were his customers. “Within recent times the public has been cooperating with us in respect to providing key information which have resulted in the seizure of guns and narcotics and I thank the public for this assistance and ask that it continue,” Hernandez said.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:50:12 +0000
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