A high-stakes narcotics investigation into missing cocaine seized from a Jamaican police storage unit has expanded to target nearly a dozen senior police officers and military personnel, according to insider sources familiar with the case. The sprawling probe was first triggered in early 2024 when two unrecorded parcels of cocaine were uncovered during an internal audit of a storage facility at the now-disbanded Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Division (C-TOC) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), launched after the arrest of C-TOC police inspector Martin Walker. Walker was taken into custody on January 8, after law enforcement found an undisclosed amount of cocaine in his personal vehicle during a routine operation.
Beyond investigating the unaccounted cocaine found in the C-TOC storage facility, investigators are now working to verify claims that members of law enforcement deliberately underreported the total quantity of cocaine seized during a separate earlier anti-narcotics operation in western Jamaica. The scale and severity of the probe became public knowledge this week, when agents from Jamaica’s Major Organised and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) executed a search warrant at the St Andrew residence of a high-ranking former C-TOC officer. Witness accounts confirm the officer was led away in handcuffs before investigators accompanied him to two additional search locations in St Andrew and Clarendon, where more evidence was potentially collected.
In an official statement confirming the operations, MOCA communications director Major Basil Jarrett acknowledged that the agency’s agents were carrying out court-authorized search and seizure warrants at multiple sites across Jamaica’s Corporate Area as part of an ongoing, active investigation. However, Jarrett declined to share additional details about the targets or potential evidence collected, citing the extreme sensitivity of the probe. “Due to the sensitive nature of the investigations and today’s operations, I am unable to divulge any additional details, except to say that the public will be apprised of more as soon as we are in a position to safely and responsibly do so,” Jarrett said in a prepared comment.
Weeks after the initial discovery of unaccounted cocaine in the C-TOC storage facility, JCF Police Commissioner Dr. Kevin Blake ordered the transfer of more than 40 officers assigned to the division, a personnel shakeup that has since been tied to the early stages of the internal investigation. The disbandment of C-TOC followed the discovery of the irregularities, marking one of the most high-profile internal corruption probes targeting Jamaican law enforcement in recent years.