Of­fi­cers of the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force seized a quan­ti­ty of sus­pect­ed co­caine and ar­rest­ed a man dur­ing a tar­get­ed drug block op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant on Sat­ur­day.

The ex­er­cise, which ran from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, cov­ered the Mor­vant and San Juan dis­tricts and was led by W/Ag/Snr Su­per­in­ten­dent Guy-Al­leyne, Su­per­in­ten­dent Birch, and Ag/ASP Cal­len­der. It was co­or­di­nat­ed by Ag/In­spec­tor Ram­s­ingh and Sgt Mar­tin, with su­per­vi­sion by Cpl Daniel.

In Mor­vant, of­fi­cers ob­served a group near a shop along Laven­tille Ex­ten­sion Road, Nev­er Dirty.

A search led to the dis­cov­ery of 55 foil-wrapped pack­ages of cream-coloured rock-like sub­stances re­sem­bling co­caine, weigh­ing 22.2 grammes, on a 28-year-old man from An­geli­na Ter­race, Nev­er Dirty.

The ex­hib­it was re­cov­ered by PC Wal­lace.

The man was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San Juan Po­lice Sub Sta­tion, where the co­caine was processed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter are on­go­ing.