Bridgetown.
Members of the Drug Squad and Customs Department found 38 pounds of marijuana valued at $156000 in the trunks of two racing cars at the Bridgetown Port yesterday.
The cars had arrived in Barbados from Jamaica last Thursday to compete in this weekend's Digicel/Williams Seaboard International Race Meet at Bushy Park .
Superintendent Grafton Phillips of the Drug Squad told Trakker News that two men were being questioned by the police, a member of the Barbados Auto Racing League (BARL), the host of the racing meet and a Jamaican who was associated with that country's team.
Phillips said over the past six months the Drug Squad with the assistance of the Customs Department has been carrying out operations targeting containers coming from source countries, yesterday three containers which arrived from Jamaica last Thursday were checked.
He explained that in those containers were racing cars which were imported for this weekend's meet, two of the vehicles contained drums which normally carry oil, it was in those drums that four taped packages of marijuana were found.
Phillips said the cars
and drugs were seized by the police.
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