Two men have been ar­rest­ed and a quan­ti­ty of il­le­gal hon­ey seized by po­lice, dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in the Fyz­abad area.

Of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports in­di­cate that of­fi­cers of the Siparia CID and Crime Scene Unit—with the as­sis­tance of mem­bers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and Cpl (Ag) Prince—in­ter­cept­ed a white, Hyundai, two tonne truck at Siparia Old Road, Fyz­abad.

Po­lice say up­on search­ing the ve­hi­cle, 43 buck­ets of a gold­en brown, sweet smelling sub­stance, re­sem­bling hon­ey, was found in the tray of the ve­hi­cle.

The two men oc­cu­py­ing the ve­hi­cle, a 54-year-old welder of Ch­agua­nas who was the dri­ver, and a 22 year-old Venezue­lan na­tion­al re­sid­ing in Williamsville, were de­tained and tak­en to the Siparia Dis­trict Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

The duo was ex­am­ined and placed un­der quar­an­tine.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice state­ment, once the quar­an­tine pe­ri­od is over, the men will be charged for the of­fences.

Po­lice re­port that the es­ti­mat­ed val­ue of the con­tra­band seized is $172,000.00TT