Bales of floating cocaine found near RT ferry dock
Police discovered a number of packages earlier today, October 29 close to the Road Town ferry terminal which are suspected to be cocaine.
Officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) responded to reports of several floating packages in the water near the terminal and said seven wrapped packages suspected to be cocaine were taken away to be examined and processed by officers.
The RVIPF asked that anyone with information regarding the origin of the packages or anyone who knows of anyone in possession of such packages who can assist officers with investigations contact the RVIPF Intelligence Unit at 368-9339.
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The ferry dock should have cameras all around up to a quarter mile out to Sea, so how they got there is as easy as looking at the camara footages.
@easy case. Do you really think someone went up to the waterfront and dumped bales of coke into the sea?
Come on bro, it got washed up from out in the channel, maybe a drop, maybe a chase we don’t know about and they dumped their load and it came in here.
And news flash to the posters saying silliness; the drug trade will not stop because there’s a market for it. Simple as that.
And you won’t get guns completely off the streets because not only criminals want or need guns and all guns are illegal. Remember that criminals don’t obey laws so it’s that simple.
The economy got a lil jump start
If it got dropped from far away, what camera will see that? That load likely was dropped way out from the shores.
This find leaves a lot of questions as to what possible scenario lead up to this.
Were these packages on one of the local ferries and dumped for whatever reason prior to final docking?
If so, who could have been involved? Crew or passenger? Who was more likely to have had access to those packages in that scenario @ those moments: crew or passengers?
In another scenario, could those packages have been on a private vessel and dumped in that area for whatever reason? If so, are the local waters being patrolled by law enforcement?
One thing is clear to me is that the security of ports on both St. Thomas and Tortola needs to be upgraded in light of the the clear increase in drug trafficking between both countries.
Specifically, xray machines and drug testing equipment needs to be installed about both ports to screen for all drugs and guns departing and entering both countries.
In St.Thomas, bags are screened by xray upon entry, but no such screening upon departure to Tortola. There is also no such screening upon departure or arrival on Tortola to or from St.Thomas.
This is an obvious hole in the security of the country that needs to be plugged as part of an overall security measure to not only decrease the likelihood of drugs entering the territory but also the transshipment of illegal guns between both countries.
If this country is serious about getting as many drugs and guns off the streets as possible, it should be working with USVI Homeland Security and the Ferry Companies to ensure that no package can leave or entering either country without xray screening or secondary screening by trained uncorrupted custom officers.
Yes, the price of ferry tickets may go up, but given the fact that the flow of guns and drugs into the territory appears to be non-ending, in my view any increase for this purpose is justifiable.
While this measure will not stop all drugs and gun flowing into the territory, it will help to dry up that blaring open hole that is probably allowing some drugs and guns to enter the territory. Such measure will also decrease the likelihood of those inclined to drug or gun traffic from using that route.
Note to the powers that be: We are not living in the 60’s now. We are living in 2023 soon to be 2024. Times has changed; people have changed. It’s time to up the security of the country before the drug and gun problem becomes impossible to curtail.
Maybe the owner did not pay the ferry baggage fee?
Some people are just DUMB ON PURPOSE!!!!!!!!!!! Do you really think that a boat rolled up to the Ferry Dock and left the cocaine there? It’s obvious that the product washed up to shore with the bad weather over the weekend and was most likely dumped way out in the ocean.
is it harvest time already?
the third pillar of our economy continues to work undercover
Indeed, St. Thomas and Tortola may need to upgraded customs, imports systems, border and the yachting tourism products as a whole in the drug interdicting process, as many to all are involved.
Though the comment has some merit,it and all others fail to resource their thoughts i ther possible directions and culprits. The same narrative is always, the local, the native is the perpertator.
Meanwhile, all, research has shown that it is those with huge resources, are in high places, are in control of government resources and assets, are in control of significant resources that can easily smuggle large amounts of contraband, and last, those that are by natural and deliberate selection are never scrutinized by law enforcement are the ones more likely to be the business people of the trade.
There is no one entity involved in drug the business. It is a very lucrative business, and given human’s nature for greed, everyone one who can is involved, from top of the governance and business elite to bottom of the local level.
Of course, only the local will be vilified in this instance. Meanwhile, the territory is still a major transshipment port used by the EU, US, and Arabian cartels, among others, to move their product to lucrative markets in the wider, far East and European world…
Hence, the VI is not the drug nation many are projecting it to be. The businesshere is minute compared to the larger world and developed nations.
Stop the demand for gasoline, sugar or salt and the production ceases. Stop the demand for mind altering substances and likewise the production, trade and use wll cease.
Good luck with that as humans are naturally inclined to seek pleasure in mind altering substances.
Business is business. Stop the demand and the businesss stops.
Stop pointing fingers in the wrong direction at thr wrong people, for whatever the/your reason.
A great tourist attraction
There is so much arriving tit just topples off the boat or where they are afraid of what awaits them when they arrive with our new and more efficient police?
check the wives of the drug dealers them too.