CAYMAN ISLAND SCAM
My husband and I just visited Grand Cayman for the first time so excited to have a relaxing trip and that was quickly ruined for us.
As soon as we landed we went through customs no problem and as we were about to leave the airport there was another stop where a man was asking us questions and he asked if we took any prescriptions medications, which I felt was a very odd question to ask, to which i replied yes and he asked what we were on and i stated we were both on anxiety medication. he then redirected us to a woman who continued to search all 6 of our bags. After letting her know which of our bags held our medications she ignored me and went to all the other bags and grabbed my husbands backpack first. They found a half empty bottle of EXPIRED CBD gummies that my husband didn't even know where in his bag. they continued to search all our other bags and the woman was giving me a hard time because all my medication were in daily containers and I didn't have the prescriptions bottles. Even having my husband pull up his medication history on his phone because they didn't see his name on one of the bottles
We let them know that CBD does not contain any THC, it even stated it on the bottle that they didn't contain any THC. They didn't care and proceeded to caution my husband and take him out of the airport in handcuffs to the detention center and leave me alone with all of our luggage in another country.
I then had to navigate getting a car and finding the address where they were keeping my husband ALONE and had to wait 2 hours until they released him. They held on to his passport when they released him and gave him a return date which was after our flight to leave was scheduled. We had to spend the whole week of our vacation calling the embassy and lawyers and trying to get an answer as to when we would be able to get his passport back. We didn't get an answer until they day before we were supposed to leave and had to change our flights twice. After lawyer fees, a $1200 fine and the cost to change our flight we are out almost $4,000
I've visited a lot of different countries and normal protocol would be to take them away and discard them or even fine him at that time. Dragging this whole thing out for a week and forcing people to rescheduled flights home is a SCAM. It is absolute extortion of tourists and it turns people away from visiting the island. There were at least 3 other American tourists who were in court with us. I did a lot of research before traveling to Grand Cayman to make sure it was safe, food was good, ETC. & I never came across any posts about this and wanted to put a warning out there.