Two months af­ter the US-do­nat­ed radar de­tect­ed mil­lions of dol­lars worth of drugs in the Ca­roni Swamp, a pick-up filled with mar­i­jua­na was found yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter a con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant tipped off po­lice.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed one man in re­la­tion to the lat­est find, which took place at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2 pm. Re­ports said of­fi­cers at­tached to the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit (CDG­IU), act­ing joint­ly with the CID Op­er­a­tions Unit, made the seizure af­ter re­ceiv­ing cred­i­ble and ac­tion­able in­tel­li­gence from a con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, a large con­sign­ment of nar­cotics re­cent­ly en­tered Trinidad and To­ba­go via the South Amer­i­can penin­su­la and was of­floaded at River­side Ma­ri­na, Ca­can­dee Road, Fe­lic­i­ty.

When po­lice en­tered River­side Ma­ri­na, of­fi­cers said they saw a white Kia K2700 “parked in a con­spic­u­ous and sus­pi­cious man­ner” be­tween two moored ves­sels. The of­fi­cers searched the ve­hi­cle and found the tray dense­ly packed with sev­er­al mul­ti-coloured cro­cus bags. The bags had high-grade Colom­bian cannabis, com­mon­ly re­ferred to as “creepy.” The weight and val­ue are yet to be de­ter­mined.

In De­cem­ber last year, po­lice, af­ter get­ting in­tel­li­gence from the US-in­stalled radar, seized 1,560 kilo­grammes of “creepy mar­i­jua­na” in the Ca­roni Swamp. A day lat­er, an ad­di­tion­al 625 kilo­grammes were seized in Point Fortin. Com­bined, the es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue was set at $171,205,320.

—JENSEN LA VENDE