Criminology and Psychology

Police have launched a manhunt for survivors - believed to be players in the trafficking of drugs - who fled the scene of a plane crash in Clarendon early yesterday morning. The cops theorise that a plane transporting drugs tried to land at an airstrip near the Rocky Point port, which is used by bauxite company Jamalco, got into difficulties and crashed into mangroves close to the Salt River community. The aircraft then burst into flames.According to the police, when they arrived at the site of the crash, they were unable to capture the fleeing men. Four partially burnt packages of compressed marijuana were found near to the burnt-out plane. A further search of the mangroves turned up 16 packages with an estimated weight of 2.5kg each.The police are also following strong leads that most of the marijuana on the aeroplane was saved before it went into flames and that it might be hidden at locations in the Salt River area. A joint police-military team also searched a few homes in the vici...