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

Of­fi­cers from the di­vi­sion, along with the Coastal, River­ine and Air Sup­port Units, were on pa­trol around 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 Street, Care­nage.

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