One man was ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na seized by of­fi­cers of the Pin­to Po­lice Post dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Pin­to dis­trict on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers stopped and searched a red Nis­san La­tio with one male oc­cu­pant along Train Line Road, Ari­ma.

The search re­sult­ed in three plas­tic pack­ets con­tain­ing 1.7 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na and a quan­ti­ty of cash in­side a black shoe­box.

The dri­ver, a 34-year-old labour­er, of Palm Court Dri­ve, Ari­ma, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the finds.

The drug has an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$17,000.