Police raid on the compound on March 17.
45-year-old Julian Adjodha alias Jag and his wife 41-year-old Moeita have been charged with Possession of Controlled Drugs and Possession with Intent to Supply. Julian Adjodha is also charged separately with Importing Controlled Drugs.
The Adjodha’s were charged on Thursday April 7 in connection with the 93.9lbs of cannabis found on March 17 on the couple’s business compound at Beausejour in Gros Islet. The drugs were found hidden in sealed metal barrels containing dishwashing liquid and are valued at EC$75,200. The couple made their first appearance in court on Friday April 8 before a magistrate.
It has taken three weeks for the police to prefer a charge in this matter. There has been much public debate over why the couple was not charged immediately. Police sources say although the drugs were found on the compound, the manner in which the drugs were discovered, that is in sealed barrels stored in shipping containers received from overseas, the police had to establish the proprietors had knowledge of the contents of the barrels before they could be formally charged.
As we go to press the STAR has learned the Adjodha’s have secured two Jamaican Queen’s Counsel’s to represent them.
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It’s about time!! Everybody in St. Lucia knew who this “business man” was!!! The real test will be if they serve any real time for this crime….
Time will tell…..
Finally,they are exposed. It was about time. what is good for the goose is also good for the gander
LOL…its almost like the media personel felt the heat….im just saying by the commencement of the story.im all the way in a foreign land and i already knew who it was.
im guessing they entering a not guilty plea.
Thank you Jesus. One down More to go!!!finally St.Lucia has a voice.IF the people didn’t speak up nothing would happen. Finally a female police in charge with balls. Literally:)
I have been out of the country for a while, but I went to SMC with some Adjodha from Anse La Raye, wondering if this is the same family. Why are they brining lawyeres from Jamacia to defend them? Is it because they do not trust the ones we have in SLU?
He is from anse la raye
Ca Ching, Ching, Ching you have just won youself a prize. Here is your lollipop.
It was time they started to charge the “Big Fish” not just the little fella’s in the Getto’s, no partiallity, The law is not just for poor people who can’t afford to give “money” to keep themselves for goiing to jail. They need to arrest more of them who THINK they can get away, because they have friends in so called “High Places” (no pun intended.)
as this story goes along the is other ppl pooping their pants rite now….i remember some years ago going to clear my christmas barrel at customs and the customs officer made me offload my whole barrel putting all my likkle ti comycion on the floor so they can see wat is below my barrel….can u imagine they wudn even let a malaway pass free with a likkle kitchen appliance if found but some associate can pass with such magnitude of narcotics and too my sceptimism those metal barrels were only disguise by a few washing liquids……uhmmmmmmm i smell RATS.
I hope they “bring down the house” and point fingers at all involved in this drug ring. I look forward to the day when the guys in kahki that do the “wheeling and dealing” get exposed.
Wow finally the police did some real work. But we all know how the system go, ill be surprised if they do any real time like someone said earlier.
OK seriouly how do u think the police j
knew about the drugs ………… if they were not informed. And futhermore if there is nothing to hide why not cut the barrel open for them to see the content. It is the little thinks that bring the big ones .
IF OJ GOT AWAY IN WHITE AMERICA THEN ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. ITS JUST A PITTY THE GHETTO YUTES DONT HAVE TO RESOURCES TO RETAIN HIGH PROFILE LAWYERS.
Did OJ really get away.lol, They always find a way to get back at you.
charges have to go down for customs officers and guards, port police the whole ball wag…. take them all down
SUCH AN IDIOT.. STOP THINKING WITH YOUR HAIRS AND START THINKING WITH YOUR BRAINS. THATS WHY YOU HAVE CUSTOMS, PORTS POLICE AND POLICE. IT WENT THROUGH TWO CHECK POINTS BUT THE THIRD WILL GET IT AND THATS WHAT HAPPENED
Truely spoken. Cause they are the ones also covering up for each other, and on certain payrolls.
Amy Winehouse: we hardly knew yee.
Good work officer-of-the-law! One down many more to go. Still…with all the corruption on the island, was Adjodah sacrifice for not comply with one of the corrupt big shots. They are so well prepared… did that three weekes grace allowed them to get Lawyers from Jamaica…wow! It’s an election year UWP the country has it eyes on you…don’t mess this one up.
all u’ll smoke the herb, it heals the nation so chill. there are so many more dealers….the biggest one sits in parliament…wtf
It’s marijuana … all y’all smoke it anyway. Chill out.
ASK FOR ME IM NOT ROUTING TO BE AGAINST GANJA…ITS SIMPLY BECUS THE LAW BEEN MUNCHING UP THE LIKKLE GHETTGO PPL FOR THAT SAMETING SOMETIME SIMPLE POSSESION OF AN OZ.GANJA.DI BIG MON AFFI PAY SUMTING TOO,WAH U FEEL BOUT THAT.IF I WAS THE GOV,T I WUD GET RID OF ALL THE COKE DONS AND PUT LEVY,S ON GANJA.BARACK OBAMA MADE A OATH TO THE AMERICANS THAT HE WUD LEGALIZE GANJA TO SOME EXTENT BUT DUE TO HIS FEAR OF THE REPULICANS HE NEVER KEPT WITH HIS PROMISE,STILL GANJA IS LEGAL TO SOME EXTENT IN MANY PARTS OF THE U.S INCLUDING WASHINTON D.C,IN BC VANCOUVER CA. AN OLD LADY WAS CAUGHT WITH 98 PLANTS OF GANJA AND SHE ISSUED A LICENSE TO SHOW IT WAS LEGAL,THEY DISCHARGE HER BUT THE DAMAGE WAS DONE.
I agree, Bare Hypocrites………Why does Marijuana offend soooooooo many people. We say we go to church and that we are spiritual people. Who created Marijuana anyways,??? is’nt it the same God that we pray to and we say that all of his works are good,???????? hey, well, some one, please tell God that he made a mistake then in creating it.(Maybe not for smoking, or drining, or eating……) Mankind has it all wrong….ALL OF GODS WORKS ARE PERFECT. Legalize it………they would prefer if persons smoked ciggarettes instead. – Hypocrites.
well done police officers,get the high ranking drug barons on our island,we know them,so de police show no them to.lets get those big shorts in drugs.this is a warning this new woman in charge eh eating nice.jamaican lawyer more into drugs too,he have nuff lawyer on the island,that can represent dem dealers to go to jail..
A drug business man caught. I wonder just how many more of this business men operate in St. Lucia? Sometimes it is so glaring obvious just who the players are, so maybe the dominos have started to fall and more big cat business men will be making friends at the bullallday hotel where some new trades and dealers will be introduced.
On another note I have to say that the absence of violent crime in St. Lucia since the police crack down on the Bad Johnny Ringos is very welcomed news. Looks like the law is alive now.
NO DRUGS NO PROBLEM!!.. HOPE THEY DO THE TIME …SLOW BUT SURE, LETS NOT SHOUT TOO FAST.
“the Adjodha’s have secured two Jamaican Queen’s Counsel’s to represent them.”
Queen’s Counsels will probably save their sorry butts, but I am confident that the “St-lucia’s court of public opinion” will ensure that they take their drug peddling @@####*** and move to Jamaica. Let us make it our business that them including their network and their drug habit find no resting place in SLU.
My Mother always tell me, never get jealous of what you see other people have especially when you know you’re working just as hard or harder than them and yet they seem to have much much more. She would say, son, cause you never know what other ways they get what they have and, how and if they sleep well at all. She would continue…A small drop in the bucket will eventually fill it up and beging to overflow…good or bad
Good lesson here, Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out. Shake in your Boots, those in High/low-Heels. Question is, which one of you is next.
bravo police officers saint lucians salute you let justice be done
Good job SLU police
Congratulations to the Royal St.Lucia Police Force this one seems like a break through hope all sticks and we can see those individuals do some jail time.
thats my cousin
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PAX! PAX! BIG UP TO THE POLICE! Manny Ramirez, Jose Conseco, Mark McGuire, Walter Francois…All were cheats/misrepresented their crudentials whether athletically or academically….athletes, politicians and now businessmen! Not saying that the couple are guilty…they still have a day in court. With the best lawyers money can buy couple with an incompetent public prosecutor, and probable innocence they might get off. What I really want to praise is the move by the police to expose the cheaters among us! Expose the People who did not work HONESTLY for their wealth posing like they are the epitome of success!CHEATERS! CHEATERS! CHEATER!
Even though he gets free-up by “de system,” his name done get blemish and Lucians never forget. Mr. Officer…now that you have started, please don’t stop. There are many more in this corrupt system of ours. Lucians,I know that many of you all are afraid to report illicite acts to the police because of the corruption that haunts our Police Dept. But…we need to sue-sue pon dem. That’s the only way we will get rid of bad elements and clean up our beautiful country. E Bon!
Notice how his “temporary” lawyers were trying the case in the media? Hey is the Labour Party’s candidate for Choseul defending the businessman found with a Huge haul of Contraband? Is the labour candidate for choseul defending possible drug dealers? Does the labour party have a statement on one of its candidates defending such a high profile drug case?
hey this is babylon this is how they set it,their shitstem actually educated him to perform this job…its not a labour…uwp thing…..its a babylonian thing.sometimes we just have to put our face in our vomitts.god created ganja and the system made it illegal… god made man for woman..and the system put it legal for a man to marry a next man.u getting the mixx…open ur eyes CARELESS ETHIOPIAN…a ride fi ur money make u funny.
wht took u all so long.i mean jaaaaaaaaaah
wowow Julian and wife shame on you 2, when you see people with all their earthly possesion never get jealous, you have no idea how they get it. bravo to the police force. jag gone but there are more especially in the house of parlaiment, check the business men bank account and see if they break even.
one thing i knw is dat there is always apolice officers,customs an bank managers on the drug dealers pay roll.the small boys on the streets dnt knw half of wht goes on
‘.all they get i poket change
avocar get your facts straight # 1 obama never said or hinted,that he would legalize weed.# 2 dc,cali,colorado,u can grow medical weed,with restrictions and a licence from the state,and a doctors prescription.#3 and most of all under federal law weed is illegal and fedral law takes presedent over state law.good job cops lets cut the snakes head bravo.
@big nate shut ur mouth and comprehend b4 u argue..note:I SAID WEED WAS LEGAL TO SOME EXTENT.which can mean for medicinal,personal wateva…i have frenz in cali and it is legal for anyone to have atleast an OZ on their person even without a license.and wat do u know about politicians and their empty promises,OBAMA did state that he inhale ganja in his teenage yrs he was just signifying his affiliation with ganja and yes he did tell the americans in his false promise that he wud have legislation on ganja,and wateva legilation there is on ganja rite now it the states it had nothing to do with OBAMA.have u ever seen the slogan (yes we CANNABIS) with OBAMA picture.i live in canada i get U.S news
Y’all really shooting too early. No one has been found guilty yet … chill out.
How many more business owners are paying off the police. The gov’t should give some kind of incentive to officer so they don’t have to take payoffs from big drug dealers. Proof that this Adjodha guy was dealing drugs is, hiring lawyers from Jamaica. GUILTY!!!!
Yes oh yes a canadian telling us how our laws work here in the us ,lol
lol,lol,lol@ our laws….st.lucian yanking dont forget ur roots u fool.
do they have cribs in america….peejhay zaiyyyy.hehehehehehe
Lets hope the proposal to seize the assets of drug dealers becomes reality/law…these guys would lose their business over these charges, if proven. Its a good deterent overseas in the US and UK, and seized assets are sold and the proceeds go to charity.
It makes the value of the drugs in the barrels look small compared to the loss through sale of their home and business…..
“INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY”
We can continue to talk and write about the arrest and subsequent charging of Ahjodha and his wife. However we must remember that they are both “innocent until proven guilty”.
Shame on those who have already inferred that Ahjodha and his wife are guilty.
Sure Lucian Boy Living In London!
So the Jamaican heavy hitters can prove that is was seamoss in dey.
The detergent was to soak up the seamoss so that the seamoss could a age.
No wonder you did not get an invite to Will’s thing.
No, Irishmoss.
Child of the future,
Irrespective of the charges, Julien Adjodha and his wife are “Innocent until proven guilty”. They will have their day in court. It is irresponsible of you and others to assume that Julien Adjodha and wife are guilty. This makes the job of selecting a jury even more difficult.
BS. It does not take a brain Surgeon to figure this out. All you will need is an asset history. Let’s See the IRS (or whatever they are called in Lucia) do thier job).
Well done officers job well done but, you are let down by custom officers its beyond belief that a custom officer gave the clearance infact the green light,as its customs rule to open every piece of luggage,every box,every barrel this calls for a investigation heads must roll.
during the Christmas season many people have barrels sent by their families and they have to go stand by and watch customs & excise searching their barrels from top to bottom looking for electrical equipment what shame.
I have to just laugh, but it good so still. Why are people going thru the trouble of importing weed into the island when they can buy the locally grown high grade wish is now considered in many circles worthy of GOLD STANDARD. They growing the herb in ice cold Alaska figure the rest out. $enial is $ood for $usiness, $ery $ood.
Fond St. Jacques should be renamed Fond St. Ganja, the high top mountains and hidden valleys are herbed to the hilt. The fellas coming from under the bush have read eyes and look very relaxed and content. I must say weed smokers appear more intelligent and aware compared to their white rum drinking cousins, who are always fighting or harassing some poor woman with their flammable vapour laden breath.
Finally..now wouldn’t that be funny if the “Controlled substance” came in from Jamaica!
i think its high time a big gun had to be busted because the small guys take all the heat while they sleep in their mansions.i just pray the law will be executed because too many times they escape and teach them that bordelais is for all
All you that saying that the herb comes from God & why are we looking at the little man.. True it is created by the Almighty and there are benefits from drinking it, however; you think any of these guys are thinking of the betterment of our Nation. These guys are thinking of only fattening up their bank balances irrespective of who they destroy along the way. Job well done to the police/customs so far. Let’s hope that you guys crossed all your T’s and dotted your I’s.
Mr DPP the show is all yours.