Po­lice have seized two il­le­gal guns and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na dur­ing an ex­er­cise at the Scar­bor­ough Port Au­thor­i­ty com­pound.

It was con­duct­ed by the of­fi­cers of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion­al Task Force (TDTF) and the Ca­nine Branch.

A TTPS re­lease said of­fi­cers con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise around 6.45 pm on Sun­day with a view of pre­vent­ing the traf­fick­ing of il­le­gal items through le­gal ports of en­try on the is­land.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched a Nis­san B16 mo­tor ve­hi­cle which had dis­em­barked from the in­ter-is­land fer­ry and was be­ing dri­ven by a 25-year-old man from Wa­ter­loo.

The search re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing a Glock pis­tol and a Smith and Wes­son pis­tol, both loaded with mag­a­zines.

Three box­es con­tain­ing 56.5 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na were al­so found and seized from the ve­hi­cle.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the finds.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

The ex­er­cise was head­ed by Supt Kirk ASP Joseph and su­per­vised by act­ing Sgt Tay­lor and PC Guy, all of the TDTF.