ANTIGUA – 21.5 pounds of ganja from Jamaica seized at post office

Officers from the narcotics and K-9 units seized nearly 30 pounds of ganja at the general post office on Tuesday.

Police say officers were on routine patrol when the K-9 indicated on a mailbag which originated from Jamaica.

The mailbag was opened by the customs task force in the presence of the narcotics officers and inside were three genuine mails and 19 large brown envelopes each containing a compressed slab of cannabis weighing 21.5 pounds with an estimated wholesale value of $86,000.

Nothing was written on the packages.