(Barbados Nation) – Barbadians are being advised to be careful with their identification cards as criminals are using stolen or bogus cards in their operations to import illegal drugs and guns.
Speaking to the DAILY NATION yesterday, head of the Police Drug Squad, Superintendent Grafton Phillips, said that over the last year the Drug Squad had discovered that people were going to the Bridgetown Port, post offices, the cargo section at Grantley Adams International Airport and courier services and fraudulently using stolen ID cards or those belonging to people who had died, to collect packages containing illicit drugs and firearms.
“When we carry out our checks we have discovered that the person had either died, that the card was reported stolen or that the person had left Barbados and was living overseas,” Phillips said.
In most cases, the cards belonged to elderly people, he said.
