CARISA LEE

Re­porter

Four sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed in To­ba­go for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of drugs and house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), yes­ter­day’s Op­er­a­tion Stead­fast led to the ar­rest of a 42-year-old san­i­ta­tion work­er from Scar­bor­ough for pos­ses­sion of 496 grams of co­caine val­ued at an es­ti­mat­ed $40,000. The man is ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

Al­so ar­rest­ed was a 27-year-old Guyanese na­tion­al of Scar­bor­ough in con­nec­tion with a case of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion.

A 31-year-old man from Mount St. George, and a 29-year-old tech­ni­cian from Bethel Main Road were both de­tained for house break­ing and lar­ce­ny.

Dur­ing the search in Bethel, po­lice al­so seized an air ri­fle, sus­pect­ed to be stolen. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Mean­while, two men from Con­go Hill in Wood­lands, Mo­ri­ah were ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day af­ter­noon dur­ing a sep­a­rate house search in the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion.

Dur­ing that op­er­a­tion, in ad­di­tion to dried cannabis, po­lice of­fi­cers seized 36 cannabis trees—well in ex­cess of the legal­ly pre­scribed lim­it. The drugs have an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$453,600.