Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 49-year-old man from Point Fortin on Tues­day af­ter un­cov­er­ing an al­leged cannabis cul­ti­va­tion op­er­a­tion at his home.

Dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions for Firearms and Am­mu­ni­tion, of­fi­cers searched the man’s res­i­dence along Jah Roots Av­enue, War­den Road.

In a ground-floor room, po­lice al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered what they de­scribed as a grow lab, con­sist­ing of 20 cannabis plants out­fit­ted with LED grow lights, fans and bot­tles of fer­tilis­er.

In the yard, of­fi­cers al­so ob­served a con­crete plat­form sup­port­ed by iron posts and cov­ered with plas­tic, which al­leged­ly housed a large quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na plants.

Fer­tilis­er bot­tles, shov­els, spray cans and ad­di­tion­al LED grow lights were al­so found at the lo­ca­tion.

The op­er­a­tion, con­duct­ed be­tween 6 pm and 10 pm, was spear­head­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Thomp­son and in­clud­ed PC Mo­hans­ingh and oth­er of­fi­cers from the Point Fortin CID and the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.