An ear­ly morn­ing high-speed chase in the West­ern Di­vi­sion re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of two sus­pects and the seizure of a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na worth an es­ti­mat­ed $1.3 mil­lion on Fri­day.

Of­fi­cers of the Di­vi­sion along with the Coastal and River­ine and Air Sup­port Units were on pa­trol around 1:10 am in the Ch­aguara­mas dis­trict, when they ob­served a white pirogue docked close to the shore­line.

The of­fi­cers al­so ob­served a white X-Trail mo­tor ve­hi­cle with two male oc­cu­pants parked a short dis­tance away.

On see­ing the of­fi­cers, the men drove off and a chase en­sued which end­ed with the ve­hi­cle be­ing in­ter­cept­ed along Abbe Pou­jade Road.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­sult­ed in two cro­cus bags con­tain­ing a 48.94 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na be­ing found and seized.

The drug has an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $1.3 mil­lion.

The two sus­pects, ages 41 and 30, both of St. Au­gus­tine, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.