Police have recovered a quantity   of dangerous drugs and firearms in separate incidents over the weekend, resulting in three adult females and eight adult males being taken into custody. 

According to police reports, the alleged suspects were taken into custody in three separate incidents. 

Police say in the first incident, shortly after 5:00pm, Saturday, Mobile Division Officers were on patrol on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway, when they observed a male and female driving in a white Suzuki car. 

The occupants upon seeing the officers, began acting in a suspicious manner. Officers were able to stop the vehicle, conducted a search and recovered a quantity of suspected marijuana. 

The  drugs weighed one pound  with an estimated  street value of  $1,000.

In the second incident, according to reports, shortly before 1:00am Sunday, Royal Bahamas Police and Royal Bahamas Defence Force Officers  from Operation “Strong Finish” conducted a search of a home on Kenya Avenue, Flamingo Gardens and recovered a .45 pistol, seven rounds of ammunition and a quantity of suspected marijuana.

Five adult males and two adult females were taken into custody in connection with this incident.

In the third incident,  shortly after 1:00am Sunday, Mobile Division Officers were on patrol on the Eastern Road, when they observed two men driving in a grey Honda Fit. 

The men, upon seeing the officers begin acting in a suspicious manner. Officers were able to stop the vehicle, conducted a search and recovered a quantity of suspected marijuana. 

The men were taken into custody and are expected to be formally charged before the Magistrate Court this week.

They are all expected to be formally charged before the Magistrate’s Court this week. 

 Drug Enforcement Unit Officers in Grand Bahama also made several significant arrests and recovered an illegal firearm and suspected marijuana.  

Police made the arrest after they discovered over 20lbs. of suspected marijuana in two separate incidents and an illegal firearm. 

According to Assistant Superintendent of Police Terecita Pinder, on Saturday shortly before 6:00pm, officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit while in the area of East Atlantic Drive, took into custody a 33-year-old male of Freeport after he was found in possession of 10 lbs. of suspected marijuana in his vehicle with a street value of $10,000.00. 

A further search of the vehicle also uncovered a .38 revolver with four rounds of ammunition. 

In the second incident, officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit, acting on information, proceeded to the Gough Lane area, where they discovered in an abandoned building suspected marijuana weighing 10.5 lbs. with a street value of $10,500.00. 

No arrest was made in this matter.