The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion says of­fi­cers made four sep­a­rate nar­cotics seizures over the past week dur­ing rou­tine op­er­a­tional ac­tiv­i­ties.

In a re­lease is­sued to­day, the Di­vi­sion said the in­ter­cep­tions led to the con­fis­ca­tion of 38.998 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na, eight am­poules of fen­tanyl, one vial of ke­t­a­mine, and 0.606 kilo­grammes of MD­MA. The mar­i­jua­na has an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $9,737,800, while the MD­MA is val­ued at $1,515,000.

Cus­toms said sev­er­al peo­ple were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the seizures and have al­ready ap­peared be­fore the Mag­is­trates’ Court. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

The Di­vi­sion said the op­er­a­tions re­flect its on­go­ing ef­forts to pro­tect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bor­ders from il­lic­it nar­cotics and oth­er forms of smug­gling, and not­ed that it con­tin­ues to use in­tel­li­gence-led strate­gies, ad­vanced screen­ing, and in­ter-agency col­lab­o­ra­tion to de­tect pro­hib­it­ed goods.