A joint law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion in Pa­lo Seco on Wednes­day re­sult­ed in the seizure of co­caine and Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na val­ued at more than $292 mil­lion.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies and led by the elite Vet­ted Unit, with sup­port from of­fi­cers of the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion.

Au­thor­i­ties said the dis­cov­ery was made at a con­cealed stash site, fol­low­ing overnight sur­veil­lance of the re­mote area.

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial fig­ures, the search pro­duced 1,177.4 kilo­grammes of Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na pack­aged in 41 cro­cus bags, with an es­ti­mat­ed val­ue of TT$129,216,117.80. Of­fi­cers al­so found 117.14 kilo­grammes of co­caine in five cro­cus bags, val­ued at TT$163,283,788.80.

The seizure fol­lowed the ar­rest on Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025) of a close as­so­ciate of a drug traf­fick­ing net­work op­er­at­ing in the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion. On that oc­ca­sion, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a large quan­ti­ty of Colom­bian mar­i­jua­na. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said in­tel­li­gence gath­ered from the ar­rest in­di­cat­ed that ad­di­tion­al nar­cotics were to be moved from the Pa­lo Seco stash to avoid de­tec­tion, lead­ing to the overnight sur­veil­lance and Wednes­day’s dis­cov­ery.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty said the to­tal street val­ue of the nar­cotics seized across the two days amount­ed to more than TT$314 mil­lion.

The Min­istry com­mend­ed the Vet­ted Unit and sup­port­ing of­fi­cers for their role in the op­er­a­tion and said it demon­strat­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to dis­man­tling or­ga­nized crim­i­nal net­works.