Cannabis seized, two arrested in Central Division operation

Po­lice seized cannabis and ar­rest­ed two peo­ple dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Area North of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

The ex­er­cise took place be­tween 1.00 pm and 6.00 pm and was co­or­di­nat­ed by se­nior of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion. Of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force Area North took part, with sup­port from the K9 Unit and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the op­er­a­tion fol­lowed in­for­ma­tion re­ceived by in­ves­ti­ga­tors. Search­es were con­duct­ed at the res­i­dences of per­sons clas­si­fied as pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers un­der Reg­u­la­tion 390 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2025. Of­fi­cers al­so car­ried out search­es in lo­ca­tions iden­ti­fied by po­lice as ar­eas where il­le­gal nar­cotics are sold.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, two in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed at Suresh Street, Ch­agua­nas. Po­lice said one per­son was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of co­caine. The sec­ond per­son was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing. Both ar­rests were made dur­ing search­es car­ried out by of­fi­cers as­signed to the op­er­a­tion.

In a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched a bushy area off To­ba­go Road Ex­ten­sion, En­ter­prise. Dur­ing that search, po­lice found four rec­tan­gu­lar pack­ages wrapped in brown tape. The pack­ages con­tained cannabis with a com­bined weight of three kilo­grams.

The cannabis was seized and tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody. The ar­rest­ed in­di­vid­u­als were tak­en to a po­lice sta­tion in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion to as­sist with in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Po­lice said en­quiries are con­tin­u­ing in re­la­tion to the seizures and ar­rests. The op­er­a­tion forms part of on­go­ing ef­forts by the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion to ad­dress of­fences in­volv­ing il­le­gal drugs.