Daraine Luton, Sunday Gleaner Reporter

THREE HAITIANS and one Jamaican believed to be involved in the drug-for-guns trade between Jamaica and Haiti were yesterday detained by the local police after an operation in Hopewell, Hanover.

Inspector Steve Brown, information officer for Operation Kingfish, tells The Sunday Gleaner that the Haitians, two women and one man, were picked up by members of Kingfish, the Narcotics Police and the Special Anti-Crime Task Force.

The operation took place in the wee hours of Saturday morning, and the Jamaican man is believed to be the mastermind behind this trade.

Police recovered a huge quantity of local currency in the raid.

Up to press time yesterday, the Jamaican, was being interrogated by the police. The Haitians, who the police suspect arrived by boat, were also being questioned by the immigration police.

Over the past four weeks, the narcotics police and members of Operation Kingfish have been targeting the western end of the island in a bid to fight the drug-for-guns trade. They have destroyed over 70 acres of fully grown ganja in the parishes of Westmoreland and St. Elizabeth.

daraine.luton@gleanerjm.com