Four men from Campbell have been arrested and charged with possession of drugs, possession with intent to supply, cultivation and possession of firearm.
Police PRO, Inspector John Carbon, have identified them as Dian Scotland, Erickson Madir, Andy Ettienne and Kalan Ettienne.
They appeared before a Roseau Magistrate on Monday, August 26. Andy Ettienne and Erickson Madir were granted bail in the sum $150, 000 each. Dian Scotland remains in custody since a proper surety could not be found for him. Kalan Ettiene is reportedly in hospital.
The men were arrested by members of the Drug Squad, Task Force and the Special Service Unit during two drug eradication exercises on August 22 and 23 in the heights of Syndicate.
During the operation 4,940 marijuana trees were destroyed.
One 410 shotgun was also found and seized, according to the police.
Meanwhile on August 25 the police said they seized 2,336 grams of cured marijuana, 438 grams of marijuana seeds and 2,184 marijuana trees in the village Layou at about 4:00 pm.
Three men are presently in custody and are expected to be charged later today.
NICE BUDS
I thik it so wrong u have two sets of law in dominica man killing an going on bail for as low as 10,000 and poor little malaway children from campbell with narural herb as we call it marijuana bail set for 150,000 what is wrong with this picture some body please explain to me what is wrong with the court system in my dominica
I strongly urge all people associated with ganja don’t vote.
Marijuana is legalized in more than ten states in the us and every year the number increases. Right now their prisons is being overcrowded and that speeds up the decriminalizing process.
Skerrit free up ganja man, open up ur eyes and wise up. Stop being the Americans foot stool.
I support full fights and penalties for cocaine.
Skerrit its time to decriminalize ganja.
As much as I would like to agree, it would be through my own ignorance. I don’t take for any one side.
Not voting is a VERY foolish decision. When you don’t vote, you legally and rightfully have no say in what happens in your country. Reason? You did not select a contender. Yes it may be a decision you made, but that just may affect the right choice.
I will not lie when i say i am against the government’s flow of things. It is wrong and corrupt in many areas (MOST), but at the end of the day, they are the reason why some of us can leave our homes and go on our daily movements.
Also, you mite just vote in the RIGHT candidate and finally legalize this stuff. ^_^
in ur dreams
So where are their pictures to show like those from Layou and St Joseph?
ADMIN: We’ve asked the police and they haven’t sent them yet. You have any, please send and we will publish.
Why adm. Would u respond to that comment only
The only way forward is legalizing it. Marijuana is not a drug, it is a plant, a weed and it “grows”.
Drugs require a chemical change, done by man, in a substance(s), which then will induce a state or frame of mind on the body.
Marijuana is 1st grown, then dried, rolled and smoked. Did you see any chemical changes there?
What about the “harms of Marijuana”?
It causes cancer… The herb itself does not cause or irritate cells of the body into a cancerous state. It is only due to the properties of the smoke itself as “smoke” and NOT the herb causes cancer! When people drink it or is medicinally used, example. Glaucoma. Does it cause cancer? NO! Its in a different form, not being smoked. Heck DOCTORS recommend it.
Do you know the declaration of American indepence was written on HEMP PAPER????
Did you know it was only illegalized for the reason that it makes people into pacifists? Something that, it’s a long shot, can bring about world peace?
I’ve seen drunkards, cocaine users, crack heads and all the other kinds. What do they look like? Murders, con artists, paros, dirty cops and wicked government officials.
The only reason weed is illegal…T’is because AMERICA made it so. We all know they don’t like pacifists. That wont work at all.
Think of all the useless bloodshed that can be avoided.
Or look at the flip side, if it legalized:
less money spent on drug busts for weed.
It will no longer be the “cool” thing, so children will gravitate less to it.
We can export it to countries willing to buy it.
MORE tourism is assured.
Negatively, we could attract the wrong tourists, but, this is where the Police and Government come in. Not only can they impose a tax on it, a law can be written against:
1) importation of weed
2) Foreigners selling it.
Also, permits can be given, age of consent established so can still charge someone underage or go after the one who gave it to them.
At the end of all this, It would be wiser to legalize it, that it remain illegal. Less crime, and more profit for the country. This is also a way of showing how the government, not just in D/ca, but the world doesn’t care about the people.
Why? They could hunt down the bigger damagers instead. like the previously mention examples and the newer ones.
Marijuana is good in the textile industry as well, if not the best raw material. It also brings people together, can stimulate brain cells as opposed to the rumors that it kills them, and the seeds are of high nutritional potency. Then again i suppose fast food is what people are into…
Also, on the foreigners selling it part, more people will want to be citizens of Dominica, hence more foreigners coming and paying their LONG money for citizenship.
Think about it!
Very interesting facts. Our leaders is blinded, pleasing america and jailing all the youths while america decriminalizing ganja. I can never vote for those brain washed educated fools.
Studies has shown the smoking marijuana has not caused cancer of any form …
Im just saying, that it is the properties of smoke on a whole. NOT the herb in it. If it were the herb, ingesting it would cause cancer; whereas it can cure certain ailments, when taken in any form.
I agree with all you wrote except that Marijuana was criminalized in the US as a way to keep Mexicans from coming across the border. At that time Marijuana was legal in the states and was brought in by Mexicans. Marijuana was criminalized due racism.
That sir was only 1 reason. mine was another. America wanted killers for wars, and dissposable ones at that. Hence cigarette use.
I really doe get it,if this is a big money maker for the state,to charge ganja growers;why not see how to make more money with it,there is a market in the USA and other major countries.this is organic.There is this programe by a big Doctor, in the USA on marijuana,Sonja Gupta,something like that is his name,stop fighting the little man to make them more poor.All our agriculture produces are under attack one way or the other.
It is time these people in power stop penalising their own people to satisfy the developed world. Even they are now having second thoughts about marijuana. Some of these people grow up drinking the herb as tea. Their grandmothers and mothers gave it to them for medicinal purposes: migraines, asthma etc. we should have a research and study done to see how best to deal with this weed, instead of throwing all our young people in jail.
Queen Elizabeth used the naturally congregated dust on the herb aka Keeth, to ease her through menstrual pains… hmmm, and you know she kept a straight face.
Ask your female friends how bad it gets…
More money for the govt.
guys rub tourists . .gets a slap on the wrist. Guys planting weed to feed his family gets their hands chopped off.
america making us destroy our ganja while they legalizing theirs and our law makers are so blind to see that
They are no blind. They just don’t care. We have to make them care. Elect some rastas to office. It don’t have to be at the top but rastas have a big population in Dominica they should have representation.
im interested to find out why the man named kalan is in the hospital? did you all miss that point? that i want to know more about!!!!
Possibilites:
1)He fell
2) ran into a post, really hard…=_=”
3) Police brutality (unnecessary force)
4)he got Shot.
Lets have a poll on this…
when he ran away from the ganja field into a precipice he dislocated his shoulder.
It is high time for the government to legalize marijuana and make some for the country sell the weed to countries that is using it for medicine have they ever thought of that income for the country we are no longer under Miss Charles Mamo young people will be able to take care of their selves come on we are not in the 20th century get with the program SKERITT it is a plant not a drug.
All you come out right Campbell and going right Syndicate? Ebeh all you desperate papa. Great job officers.
All u them kind of people is oppressors. Fighting and holding down JAH children. Keep the faith ganja farmers, remember pharoh enslave Israel for 400yrs.
Woe unto skerrit and his legislation. The stone that the builder refuse is always the head corner stone.
Marijuana is legal in most US States
wher de pics
Where y pic am sure they cuter than u, why don’t u ask what is govt. Of dominica doing to keep these young people occupied to help creat employment.
Am not a smoker or user of marijuana but I think that the goverment should consider legalizing it.Our prison population will be reduce and the goverment can impose tax on it to raise revenue.
while you are at it, legalise murder, cocaine, theft, burglary and manslaughter. The prison population will thank you for it..fool.
Y hate herb so much. When its herb that grow a whole heep of u all, it feed, clothed and housed all u now all u against it…typical crab hitting the hands that feed them.
I see foolish people crawled out of their shell… BAKA!
If you saw any comments saying anything about legalising those negative vybz, then go an fix your eyes and i will retract my insult. Till then, wallow in your self indulgence of random crap that flows through your grey matter.
We talk pacifistic ideals, you want life takers to fall in the same bracket. Almost has a racist feeling to it.
When alcohol was illegal, im sure your grand parents were the ones to say dem people dumb! It was illegal and you had villains like Al Capon, the real 1, running his mafia (Mob), using that as a source of dilenquency and money income.
Also, how dare you say legalise murder… its almost that way already.
How can you compare Marijuana with manslaughter? Do you know that liquor is far more destructive than Marijuana? Yet alcohol is accepted and advertised. While you at it more crimes are done while drunk than high.
Can Government try securing a sale for our marijuana to one of the States that allows medical marijuana?
In that case you will then sanction some marijuana planter..if u don’t know who plants the best weed go back over your court records cause we have some deadly planters here which would employ ppl and Two secure foreign exchange from the States.
Why not lets try this insytead of every week arresting these farmers and sending them jail whilst the poor suffering ppl in the states have shortage of proper organically grown marijuana for medicinal purposes?????
Who for them to arrest they not arresting….. all you ask the man to come down in d station for question now he charge n on bail…. don’t worry
Alas everyday is drugs, drugs, and more drugs, guns and more guns,but wat can be done, will somebody try and open a way to help, no jobs, no market for farmers, not even vegetables dat selling boy someting wrong.
The power is in your hands.
respect to layou all the rasta out there hold tight.ganja soon ligalize tell you that we working on it.
why is that we are so busy to destroy the harmless weed here on dominica and we have cocaine desrtoying people lives coming in at will. Go behind the bigg men whoyou know brings in the cocaine. we can do much better than just catching the poor man planting the little weed is a joke.
Arrest those in high office also crime is crime
They were granted $150,000 each for growing weed? Marlvelous business. Editor, I think you left something out perhaps?
While medicinal marijuana is available in pharmacy’s in many US states and legal in others we locking up our own. Give the police real work to do
re the importation of cocaine.Don’t make life harder for poor people & their families.
Is only poor people children allu like to do that eh? I detest drug dealers but the men have yet to be charged and allu calling their name??? The article said they expect to be charged later today wait until then………It would be good for their Lawyers to make an example of allu
Did you read the story?
Two sets of people were arrested. The first set from Campbell were charged and appeared in court, according to the story. Hence their names were used.
The second set from Layou will be charged later today and their names were not used in the story.
Read the damn thing again before you comment. SMFH
ikrrrr …hmmm
@ Jazzy Jeff…… If you read the information, it’s clear that you did not understand what you read.
The information that I read is that they were charged and granted bail.Don’t know which of the two computers is lying.
LinTon SaVe Us
weh weh dem ting looking well healthy
you can say that again…