JAMAICAN AUTHORITIES on Tuesday intercepted and seized approximately $38 million worth of ganja which was declared as used furniture by its traffickers.

Customs, in a press release, said the shipment consisting of three wooden crates containing one dresser, one wardrobe and two chests of drawers was scheduled to leave the port on October 5 for Tamarac, Florida, aboard the Seaboard Voyager.

Members of the Jamaica Customs Border Protection Unit (BPU) were conducting routine examinations at Kingston Wharves when a scan was conducted on the shipment.

Approximate weight

Jamaica Customs also said the weed weighed 90.82kg or approximately 200lb.

No arrests have been made but Karl Angell, the Jamaica Constabulary Force's director of communication, has said that "at least three persons connected to the case have been interviewed".

Meanwhile, in another find, Jamaica Customs' Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) Unit confiscated 1.25kg of cocaine and arrested an inbound passenger last Saturday.

Arrested is Stacy-Ann Lewis of Providence Heights in Montego Bay, St James. Jamaica Customs said Lewis retrieved two suitcases from the carousel at the Norman Manley International Airport and headed for the 'nothing to declare line' where she was intercepted and searched by authorities.

Jamaica Customs said the search of one of her suitcases revealed a "false compartment which was used to conceal a plastic bag containing a white powdery substance which tested positive for cocaine".

Lewis was arrested and charged with possession of, dealing in and importing cocaine.