Four per­sons were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of cannabis, and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of the drug found, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day, Sat­ur­day 19 Sep­tem­ber 2020.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the four sus­pects were searched while at the Ch­agua­nas Ven­dors’ Mall, and sep­a­rate quan­ti­ties of cannabis al­leged­ly were found on each of them. A to­tal of 325.24 grammes of cannabis was al­leged­ly seized. They were sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed.

Po­lice re­ports state sev­er­al un­oc­cu­pied booths at the mall al­so were searched. Of­fi­cers found a trans­par­ent plas­tic bag con­tain­ing sev­er­al plas­tic pack­ets and wrap­pings with a dry plant-like ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling high-grade cannabis weigh­ing 823.43 grammes, and with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$30,000.

The TTPS ex­plains that dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Con­nec­tor Road, Carlsen Field, Ch­agua­nas, and searched a bushy area. They found dry plant-like ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling high-grade cannabis weigh­ing 439.10 grammes, and with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$15,000 in sev­er­al plas­tic pack­ets and wrap­pings. The pack­ets and wrap­pings were found in a black plas­tic bag.

The ex­er­cise was su­per­vised by Snr Curt Supt Si­mon, Supt Ram­phal and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (CDTF) Area North led by Sgt Bas­ant, Ag Cpl Hamil­ton and of­fi­cers from the Ca­nine Unit.