Nar­cotics val­ued at over $4.5 mil­lion dol­lars were seized by of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion’s Gang Unit, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion, yes­ter­day.

The ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed be­tween 12:30 pm and 8:30 pm, on Wednes­day 14th Oc­to­ber 2020.

Of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports state that dur­ing the ex­er­cise, po­lice of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a build­ing in Port-of-Spain where they car­ried out a search of the premis­es.  They sub­se­quent­ly dis­cov­ered three pack­ets con­tain­ing a quan­ti­ty of co­caine in the pos­ses­sion of a man oc­cu­py­ing the build­ing.

The of­fi­cers al­so searched a mo­tor ve­hi­cle which was parked in the vicin­i­ty of the build­ing. The ve­hi­cle had a lone male oc­cu­pant. That search re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing six pack­ets al­so con­tain­ing co­caine.

The drugs have a com­bined weight of 3.3 kilo­grammes and an ap­prox­i­mate street val­ue of TT$4,555,000.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed the two men—a 37-year-old and a 34-year old, both of Diego Mar­tin.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr. Supt. Kelvern Thomp­son, Supt. Smith and ASP (Ag.) Cog­gins, and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion’s Gang Unit and the Ca­nine Unit.