Detectives assigned to the Area 3 Narcotics Police Division seized approximately 2,358 pounds of compressed ganja during a joint police/military operation along the South Coast Road, Alligator Pond, Manchester on Saturday, March 6. 

Reports are that about 5:30 p.m., lawmen were in the area when a section of the coastline was searched and forty-five knitted bags and three buckets containing compressed ganja weighing approximately 2,358 pounds were seen. 

The illicit drug has an estimated street value of $JMD 9,432,000.

No one was arrested in relation to this seizure.