2012 Q2: $3.2 Million Worth Of Drugs Seized

August 7, 2012

An estimated 49.6kg [109lbs] of controlled drugs with an estimated street value of $3.2 million was seized by police in the second quarter of 2012

The statistics show seizures from 1 April 2012 to 30 June 2012. The majority of drugs seized are at street level [107] while there were 51 seizures at ports [including LF Wade] and 3 overseas seizures which involved overseas law enforcement agencies.

Out of the estimated total of 49.6kg of controlled drugs, cannabis the most common drug with 44kg [97lbs] seized at a value of $2.2 million.

Cocaine is the next highest, with 3.9kg seized with a value of $0.9 million. The type, weight and value of the drugs seized broken down by Port, Street and Overseas seizures can be seen in the chart below extracted from the police report.

Assistant Commissioner Paul Wright said: “Total drug seizures for the second quarter increased by 11% but are below average for the previous year. The context, however, is that last year’s unusual seizure of $52 million worth of drugs pushed the average up significantly.

“The primary seizures were made at the borders by the Department of Customs and totalled over $3 million. Another $200,000 worth was seized from the street or interdicted en route to Bermuda. The total drug seizures for the year to date are valued at $5.1 million.”

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  1. great show says:

    good stuff.

  2. Kathy says:

    So…does it sound like the culprits are the cruise ships? How much money does Bermuda actually make off cruise ship visitors. Perhaps we should ban them for 10 years so we can get our drug habits under control! Don’t think we would be missing much in revenue and perhaps we can clean up our streets and save some money being spent up in Westgate.

  3. Dantes Inferno says:

    Yeah, marijuana isn’t the clear winner of Bermudas drug of choice…right!?

  4. Observant Citizen says:

    so i guess these drugs get thrown away..
    the police just take these of 3.2 million dollars worth of drugs and toss em in a waste bin…
    definitely… it would be criminal, even if the to bdp crew is struggling, to be doin madness like puttin these back on the streets for financial gain, no way, it would be down right immoral…
    it might happen everywhere in the world, but not in Bermuda, no way… we’re not the type of society that dwells on money like that…
    people might say that police are corrupt but thats foolishness… they’re like all of us if not even more morally sound… if one of their cousins on the streets offers em 10,000 for a quarter pound of canabis, no way theyre gonna take it! they could risk losin their job! so people can put that foolish talk to bed.
    we need police! big ups to the bdp. without this increased police presence where would bermuda be!? go back before ewart brown brought the fbi in to tighten things up… what were things rly like!?

    • Come Correct says:

      Your being sarcastic right? For as long as I had known, there was a drought of marijuana every year after summer, almost until the next summer, every year, until 2007. What about those lexus limosines, the ones you hardly ever see, that’s quite an investment to turn around and not make a profit. Now I want you to ask yourself a few questions. When were these cars brought in and what else was close to that date? Who brought them in (because that says a lot)? How much do they weigh stock and how much did ours weigh? Lastly, why were they sitting lower than stock models with stock suspension when they rolled off the dock, yet they look perfectly stock now? Also, and I hate to speak ill of the dead, may he rest in peace, but yankee boy didn’t elude harsh jail time by being a law abiding citizen, nor was he killed for being one. I think we should stop looking for corruption and start looking for integrity, its a hell of a lot harder to find.

      Now let’s just clear something up, just because governments world wide deem marijuana as a drug, doesn’t mean it is. If president obama and premier cox stood up and told you brocolli was bad for you, does that make it true simply based on their position? Marijuana is a natural plant, not unlike a palm tree or salvia, other than the fact that the palm tree and the hallucinagenic plant are legal here. Am I the only one that sees the assbackwardness (yes I just made that up) here? Kind of destroys the point that a drug is a mind altering substance huh? When salvia is legal, and you see sh!t that isn’t real (ie. You body melting into a chair, care bears) and then you have illegal yet harmless marijuana that, well I could go into details, but simply, makes you happy and relaxed. I don’t disagree that it is a mind altering substance, but if that is your argument for making it illegal then stop eating food for a week and let me know how you feel before and after you eat again. DMT, another illegal substance, that can be extracted from a type of grass, never tried it but from what I understand, the high, and the things you see are mind blowing. Get this crazy drug off our streets you say? Well fear not, I’ll put on a badge a blue uniform and go house to house every night with a corldless drill since YOUR BRAIN produces this chemical every time you sleep. Stop believing everything you hear and start using your own mind to make concious evaluations on the facts that are right in front of you. Decriminalize marijuana, and criminalize alcohol, its HIGH time we took the worlds head out of its a$$ hole.

  5. Really says:

    Article states that twice the seizures were made on the street as opposed to ports but chart clearly showed the the volume and value is far greater on the ports ,so even though police may be doing a good job we must also give customs and border protection it’s due credit as they clearly are putting up the numbers to little or no credit.

  6. Opressed says:

    So how much didn’t they get, that ended up on the streets??

    • Future says:

      90%. Meaning lots of ppl who live here haven’t matured to the point of navigating the inevitabilities in life without some external crutch. Lots of work to do.