Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

An Arou­ca man plead­ed guilty af­ter be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of drugs for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, days af­ter he was found with mar­i­jua­na, ec­sta­sy and mol­ly in his home.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force Area East, the Arou­ca CID and the po­lice Ca­nine Unit vis­it­ed a house on Thomas Trace, last Fri­day af­ter­noon.

While search­ing the home, po­lice found a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na in plas­tic wrap­ping, ec­sta­sy pills and pack­ets con­tain­ing the drug 3,4 meth­yl­ene­dioxymetham­phet­a­mine al­so known as 'mol­ly.'

Po­lice ar­rest­ed the man.

He was charged with the pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na, as well as the pos­ses­sion of ec­sta­sy for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing and the pos­ses­sion of mol­ly for the pur­pos­es of traf­fick­ing.

He ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the Court on Mon­day where he plead­ed guilty to the charges.

The ex­er­cise was co-or­di­nat­ed by ACP Singh, Snr Supt Vern­ly Gift, Supt Jaikaran and co-or­di­nat­ed by ASP Sunil Bharath, ASP Pierre, In­sp Pe­ters and Sgt Sean Be­dase, with su­per­vi­sion from Cpl Forde.

Da­ta from the TTPS Crime and Prob­lem Analy­sis (CA­PA) branch re­port­ed that 1.7 grams of ec­sta­sy were seized com­pared to 200.1 grams 187 pills were seized in 2024, while 182.88 grams and 1,036 pills were seized in 2025.

In terms of metham­phet­a­mine seizures, po­lice re­port­ed that 540 grams were seized in 2023, while on­ly ten pills were con­fis­cat­ed in 2024 and 251.13 grams seized in 2025.