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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Two held with 25 packets of marijuana

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Marijuana seized by police in Cedros on Wednesday.

Marijuana seized by police in Cedros on Wednesday.

Two men are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Point Fortin Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

Ish­mael Mitchell, 36, a lor­ry man, of Pash­ley Street, Laven­tille, and Ri­car­do Prospect, 32, a truck dri­ver, of Short Street, Mt. Hope, were charged with the of­fence, af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SWDTF), dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, con­duct­ed in the Ce­dros dis­trict, around 5:35pm, on Wednes­day 29th Au­gust, 2018.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, su­per­vised by Sgt. Shel­don Ablacks­ingh, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to South­ern Main Road, Granville, where they had cause to stop and search a white Mit­subishi Hi­ace truck with two male oc­cu­pants.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­sult­ed in a white cro­cus bag con­tain­ing 25 plas­tic pack­ets con­tain­ing 11.5 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na be­ing dis­cov­ered.

The drug has an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $115,000.

The ac­cused were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find and charges were laid by PC Ster­ling Sandy, of the SWDTF.


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