$16.1M cannabis crop destroyed in Moruga

In a cannabis sup­pres­sion op­er­a­tion, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it suc­cess­ful­ly erad­i­cat­ed a large cannabis crop with­in the Marac, Moru­ga For­est Re­serve.

The op­er­a­tion, led by the Spe­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit (SIU) Jun­gle Op­er­a­tions Team, in­volved col­lab­o­ra­tion with mul­ti­ple agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Firearms Traf­fick­ing In­ter­dic­tion Unit, the Moru­ga Po­lice, the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, the Air Sup­port Unit, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment Spe­cial Forces.

Un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Sergeant Lee from the SIU In­tel­li­gence Sub-Unit, the team ven­tured ap­prox­i­mate­ly two kilo­me­tres in­to the for­est re­serve. There, they dis­cov­ered sev­en cannabis fields span­ning ap­prox­i­mate­ly eleven lots of land, con­tain­ing an es­ti­mat­ed 16,100 ful­ly grown cannabis plants. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, they found a seedling bed with around 1,500 seedlings and a camp­site.

The TTPS said all cannabis plants, seedlings, and the camp­site were de­stroyed, with the es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of the erad­i­cat­ed cannabis pegged at ap­prox­i­mate­ly TT$16.1 mil­lion.

The TTPS is em­pha­sis­ing its com­mit­ment to tack­ling il­le­gal drug cul­ti­va­tion and en­sur­ing the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of com­mu­ni­ties.