Casan­dra Thomp­son-Forbes

Po­lice have seized more than $1mil­lion worth of com­pressed mar­i­jua­na in To­ba­go. The haul was made on Sun­day night at Buc­coo beach. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve the high-grade mar­i­jua­na came from St Vin­cent. Po­lice sources said of­fi­cers from the Tac­ti­cal Unit were on pa­trol in the Buc­coo area when they saw men car­ry­ing cro­cus bags on their heads. The men dropped the bags and ran when they saw the of­fi­cers.

No one was held. The po­lice checked the bags and found 101.74 kilo­grammes of com­pressed mar­i­jua­na. At a news con­fer­ence at the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion yes­ter­day act­ing Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Garfield Moore said the dis­cov­ery had put a se­vere dent in the drug trade in To­ba­go. He said drug traf­fick­ers would have of­floaded the mar­i­jua­na from pirogues.