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UPDATE: Over 400Kg of cocaine seized on vessel off Cooper Island

- vessel was intercepted on north side of Cooper Island by marine police on routine patrol
The cocaine was discovered on a vessel (in foreground) off Cooper Island on August 13, 2022. Photo: Team of Reporters.
The illegal drugs allegedly seized by police off Cooper Island today, August 13, 2022. Photo: Team of Reporters
The illegal drugs allegedly seized by police off Cooper Island today, August 13, 2022. Photo: Team of Reporters
COOPER ISLAND, VI- The amount of cocaine seized on a vessel off Cooper Island yesterday, August 13, 2022, is estimated to be over 400 kilograms.

This is according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) in a press release this morning.

According to the press release, while on routine patrol, officers of the RVIPF Marine Branch yesterday afternoon met a “suspicious vessel” on the north side of Cooper Island.

Two amounts of cocaine discovered on vessel- RVIPF

The vessel, according to police, was intercepted and subsequently searched.

“Uncovered was a small quantity of what is believed to be cocaine in the bow of the boat.

“A subsequent search of the vessel uncovered an even larger quantity estimated at over 400 kilograms,” the press release stated.

Two persons presently are in custody in relation to this incident.

See article published August 14, 2022

Police make large drug bust off Cooper Island; 2 arrested

Two men have been arrested by police, following a large drug bust in Virgin Islands waters late this afternoon, August 13, 2022.

According to reports, the men taken into custody were in a vessel off Cooper Island when they were stopped by officers of the Police Marine Unit.

More details to follow.

71 Responses to “UPDATE: Over 400Kg of cocaine seized on vessel off Cooper Island”

  • hmmm (13/08/2022, 21:35) Like (19) Dislike (30) Reply
    Y’all seen that Mika Barry list I sure is someone in that list.. it’s the bvi culture
    • @hmmm (13/08/2022, 22:20) Like (35) Dislike (17) Reply
      It’s the world’s culture, your people included. Don’t be a hypocrite!
      • Arrion (14/08/2022, 12:34) Like (44) Dislike (9) Reply
        Damn! How much were Fahie and Maynard involved? These are serious and critical happenings with drugs, guns, and murders! Our jailed people in Miami are connected to ruthless people and drugs being brought in is business as usual. They cannot return to the BVI now without being scorned. The embarrassment and danger they put the citizens here in are stifling. Their names will go down in history as the stupidest, greedy leaders we have ever had. No shame whatsoever with Fahie wanting to get back here so fast, instead of doing his time for the crimes. Shameless and ruthless gangster at its best.
    • Who watching who now lol (14/08/2022, 09:11) Like (36) Dislike (15) Reply
      Remember when the former comissioner of police said drugs funded many big houses on the hill....People started to print tshirt and hoodies talking about people must stop watch them LMAO!!! And the former comissioner WAS right!
      • bvi (14/08/2022, 13:02) Like (6) Dislike (16) Reply
        At any moment they accept a bail for him and he goes out to the street to do the same thing again because they are from BVI if he were Spanish they would take his jail in prison
      • @Who watching (14/08/2022, 22:22) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
        Who truly watching?? The former commissioner was jealously watching himself, wishing he too owned one. Didn’t he retire and buy a house on our beautiful hillsides?
    • Looking (15/08/2022, 08:45) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      got a link?
  • Hellos (13/08/2022, 21:36) Like (64) Dislike (19) Reply
    It will never stop coming bvi is the drug hub of the Caribbean
    • @Hellos (13/08/2022, 22:31) Like (31) Dislike (48) Reply
      With the vast Caribbean sea and various island chain why would you brand the BVI as the drug hub of the Caribbean? You need to truly go home and review how much drugs come through your country’s borders. I bet you wouldn’t have the time to spare to return to our shares to talk such nonsense, but you would find steady employment at home ‘finally’.
      • Rubber Duck (14/08/2022, 09:18) Like (25) Dislike (1) Reply
        Its corrupt and next door to the USA. Perfect for drug snuggling.
      • @ hellos (14/08/2022, 09:55) Like (18) Dislike (3) Reply
        I agree with you.. alot of the other Caribbean Islands are rife with drug trafficking but alot of them are also independent...meaning not much interference from the outside....
        • True but… (14/08/2022, 23:13) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
          Not only the independent Caribbean nations All throughout the world as well. Look at the UK!
  • bvi (13/08/2022, 21:38) Like (26) Dislike (3) Reply
    Nah man.What’s going on in the BVI?
    • @bvi (13/08/2022, 23:11) Like (29) Dislike (18) Reply
      Is that a question? Keep your head in the sand and act like you don't know. STTTTREEEEUUUPPPPSSSSS #Clown
  • Local (13/08/2022, 21:42) Like (36) Dislike (12) Reply
    Well saw the BVI have become a major drug hub for drug runners Mr Governor you need to step up surveillance the coastn guatd just nab 3 with drugs and cash now over 700 million dollars worth trying to smuggle through.There are too many spanish dealing drug in the territory just watch the different rentals they drive in aweek no work but partying every day.
    • @local (13/08/2022, 23:12) Like (52) Dislike (9) Reply

      Just the spanish alone???? Local in it too Go Siddung ya bias m**has***t

      • mumu (14/08/2022, 07:15) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
        Something wrong with Ayo people. Still have to try out local. So what they are mumu ?
      • Local (14/08/2022, 10:26) Like (31) Dislike (8) Reply

        I hit the spot you must be spanish let the truth be told 99% of drugs coming through its by spanish supply by spanish so you go sit your lazy @#% down and look a job.If you think i'm bias then i am base on facts. Every pop up spanish bar and salon cleaning money for santo domingo. Venezuela, columbia drug dealers . Comment on that mi amigo.

      • @ @local (15/08/2022, 08:51) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        You should include the other foreign residences as well. Where were the two cops from who got arrested with the larges supply of drugs in the history of the BVI?
    • Quick Question (13/08/2022, 23:41) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
      Who is the 3rd one. The news only mentioned 2 men.
    • mumu (14/08/2022, 07:17) Like (1) Dislike (5) Reply
      Local why you so interested? Maybe they should check you. For some odd reason you super interested in this matter. Yiu care to share your interest?
      • Quick Question (14/08/2022, 20:19) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
        @Mumu, Oh so the 3rd one is you- the MUMU. I understand why you get so upset by my LEGITIMATE question. Poor ting, go turn in yourself. You reek wid guilt. Stop smoking the white powder. Your brain looking ashy.
    • @local (14/08/2022, 22:36) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      Now you are asking this man to do the job that all his predecessors were to do long time under their portfolio? Hasn’t this task always been under the Governor’s portfolio?
  • flUffy (13/08/2022, 21:42) Like (23) Dislike (0) Reply
    AND THE BEAT GOES ON,,,,
  • . (13/08/2022, 22:11) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    ????‍♂️
  • @ local (13/08/2022, 22:15) Like (6) Dislike (14) Reply
    so you observe that too ???? / and watch bourbon for the food they sweacting food and putting sh*t in their food and p*so in the coffee ???? and then you will be in their control , so beware or your property will not be yours your mind body and soultimately will be lost / but you ain't got believe me / you can believe their sweet talk ofor pappi - daddi etc
  • ant (13/08/2022, 22:21) Like (27) Dislike (1) Reply
    Captain running drugs all the time .His time come now. Some time thing happen and we ask y .
  • Strupez (13/08/2022, 22:38) Like (19) Dislike (4) Reply
    Some people don't learn. Dude
  • west bank (13/08/2022, 22:49) Like (27) Dislike (8) Reply
    Seems like any product that is not the man up the hill own getting caught .. food for thought
  • Mark collin (13/08/2022, 23:01) Like (28) Dislike (9) Reply
    We love you, i feel safe under your watch, good job officers,
    Make sure the evidence dont dissapear when the case ready to try.????
  • taxpayer (13/08/2022, 23:10) Like (29) Dislike (4) Reply
    Look like drug mafia ruling this country, god help us
    • VOTER #6 (14/08/2022, 04:33) Like (16) Dislike (3) Reply
      YOU WAIT LONG TO KNOW THAT DRUG MONEY IS KEEPING TORTOLA ECONOMY A FLOAT.
      • @Voter #6 (14/08/2022, 22:47) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
        Drug money circulates throughout many countries, but unless an accurate survey of this issue is conducted, you are talking unintelligently and with vain malice.
  • Ja rules (14/08/2022, 00:07) Like (19) Dislike (3) Reply
    That’s what they want to be caught while the port running free
  • 999 (14/08/2022, 00:38) Like (39) Dislike (4) Reply
    Oh yes!!!
    now u know what really going on last time it was Norman this time it is Cooper….private enterprise!!

    wake up{the little boys are just the transporter} will we ever see the backbone of the people who actually financing the drug buys

  • The Trend.. (14/08/2022, 01:47) Like (38) Dislike (1) Reply
    Usually when one vessel get caught another two slip through...A lot of shixt going on here.. It must be something why they are coming to the BVI. I heard the BVI has some young secret millionaires .
  • pow (14/08/2022, 05:06) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
    I tell my panna wait
  • Really? (14/08/2022, 05:43) Like (43) Dislike (4) Reply
    I thought they said we were an honest, hard working people and that we found it very offensive when the Police video contained scenes of drug running and said that it was very common here...? SMH…One thing I have realized is that they will never quit. There is probably an other duo out there as I type, trying to get their product across the border..
    • Hmm (14/08/2022, 12:05) Like (23) Dislike (8) Reply
      You don't think smugglers work hard and honest? Risking their lives daily?

      Don't forget, drug running and smuggling are crimes by law not sins by God.
    • @Really? (15/08/2022, 09:04) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
      Are you an honest hard working citizen or a drug dealer? I know I am not a drug dealer and the majority of citizens and residents are not as well. Stop starting malicious propaganda without evidence of facts. You sound like an evil soul, just like the drug dealers.
  • smh (14/08/2022, 06:09) Like (15) Dislike (5) Reply
    Hand them over to the US
  • ... (14/08/2022, 08:28) Like (18) Dislike (8) Reply
    Too much crap about drugs holding up the economy when last have you seen them investing in infrastructure? Probably invest in their own business but never think this is meaningful to the majority of BVI landers.

    criminals are for themselves & no one else that is why they turn on each other when shh hits the fan.
    • VOTER #6 (14/08/2022, 11:04) Like (23) Dislike (7) Reply
      THAT MONEY CIRCULATE IN THE COMMUNITY SHOPS,STORES HOTEL, SUPERMARKETS PRIVATE SCHOOL SO YOU SEE THAT DRUG MONEY GOES ALONG WAY IN THE BVI OH DONT FORGET IN THE OFFERING PLATED IN CHURCH .
      • To Voter 6 (14/08/2022, 11:58) Like (28) Dislike (2) Reply
        I hear you, but the problem comes when they start killing each other over drug money and endangering the rest of us and when some of our own children end up on those same drugs.
        • VOTER #6 (15/08/2022, 04:28) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
          WELL IF YOU AND ME KEEP OUT THEIR WAY THEY WOULDN'T KILL FOR DRUGS.
          IF YOU NOTICE THEY ONLY THEIR DRUG FRIENDS THEY ARE KILLING. LETS KEEP OUR HANDS CLEAN.
  • Collins must go (14/08/2022, 09:28) Like (8) Dislike (26) Reply
    I am sure the RVIPF was behind this
  • @' @ hellos (14/08/2022, 09:58) Like (8) Dislike (2) Reply
    the truth will only affect those who are guilty ,and if you are into that blood money then you and family will suffer the consequences ???? ???? Escobar / EL chapo are just 2 examples , but hey , some people will sell their souls just to be a millionaire , even though it will be sweet and short , they don't care as long as the look good ???? no problem who dead
  • What Do You Expect (14/08/2022, 10:53) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply

    The island has become a drug hub because the PR****R and his cronies set it up to be exactly that.
    Once the rats are in the house getting them out is not easy.

    • At What Do You Expect (15/08/2022, 09:50) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      That wretched “HC”/ DIShonorable was ready to sell not only his own soul but the health and safety of the People of these Islands, to a Criminal Drug Cartel, for his own (and his cronies) enrichment. And once those people are in, they are in for good, and they don’t care who they kill.

  • rubber duck (14/08/2022, 11:38) Like (5) Dislike (11) Reply
    His brother is a lawyer so he should be ok
  • H**** C****h (14/08/2022, 11:53) Like (11) Dislike (2) Reply

    Curses, foiled again

  • Real Talk (14/08/2022, 12:44) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    Boy pedro you suprise me never thought i would have seen you here with hand cuff real talk



  • vi (14/08/2022, 12:48) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
    The two from east end still missing
  • Law Brother (14/08/2022, 12:48) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    Not that easy. Evidence is what counts.
  • No joke (14/08/2022, 13:03) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    L after L……he goin kill he self or kill some ppl
  • hhheeeaadd couch (14/08/2022, 13:06) Like (11) Dislike (5) Reply

    if i was still in charge them boys would be ok

  • T (14/08/2022, 13:55) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
    Eafth ah run red right now water more than flour.ME SON
  • Miss Juliette (14/08/2022, 15:36) Like (14) Dislike (2) Reply
    Another Spanish, they need to catch the others.
  • again (14/08/2022, 15:42) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Losing streak in effect.
  • Pull up (14/08/2022, 18:32) Like (6) Dislike (4) Reply
    how can members of the public be assured the sum of money being published was the actual amount confiscated by popo we all know some enforcement officers hands are sticky also dirty

    • Darkness (16/08/2022, 07:10) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      WHATS IN DARKNESS WILL COME TO LIGHT , AND AS WE SEEING ???? IT IS HAPPENING ALL AROUND US NOW / SO ALL THOSE WHO WANTS TO GO TO WAR , WITH ANYONE WHO EXPOSES THE TRUTH ,WE WILL SOON KNOW THE REASON WHY YOU WERE SO ANGRY , THAT BLOOD MONEY DON'T LAST ,ITS CURSED , SO ENJOY YOU FAME AND FORTUNE ( KARMA ) IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER
  • tolaman (14/08/2022, 19:00) Like (14) Dislike (2) Reply
    Then you making noise and screaming about that video some weeks ago? That video shows the FACTS almost every week-month the video and lashing dogs prove the Facts. You see all that get rich scheme behave that’s going on?? Only time. Want all gets NONE. All the continuing to do is to give the BVI a black eye ????, then the other want to deny and blame others. How sad that greed is the game to win, until American’s TV crew roll in to tape the BVI TV series “BVI DRUGS AND GREED IN PARADISE” to replace “American Greed” on the A&E channel. These drugs runners ????????‍♂️ don’t learn?
    • @ tolaman (14/08/2022, 20:03) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
      when the cats away the mice will play: the deterrent against unlawful activities in the territory sea water is marine patrols….American is the last nation that can speak up and speak out drugs because the majority of drugs is destined to USA…if USA can reduce the demand for the dope things could change
  • Fk (14/08/2022, 20:51) Like (6) Dislike (4) Reply
    It's about time tola interduic drugs as one of ther livelihood
  • chi chi (15/08/2022, 01:11) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    that's a lot of yayo
  • help me (15/08/2022, 07:39) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    the slave masters made their money from slaves and who were these slaves
  • Really? (15/08/2022, 12:13) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Why y'all acting like BVI is the only place running drugs?


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