Drugs worth $23M seized in Fyzabad; man arrested

A man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized nar­cotics with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of more than $23 mil­lion dur­ing an ex­er­cise in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Thurs­day.

Po­lice said the op­er­a­tion was car­ried out on March 5, 2026, by of­fi­cers of two spe­cial­ist units of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, mem­bers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force and the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, in­tel­li­gence re­ceived in­di­cat­ed that a drug traf­fick­ing net­work op­er­at­ing with­in the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion had im­port­ed a quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics from South Amer­i­ca.

Based on the in­for­ma­tion, co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es were con­duct­ed in the South­ern and South-West­ern Di­vi­sions.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers went to Richard­son Trace, Fyz­abad, where search­es were car­ried out.

Po­lice said the search­es re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of five cro­cus bags con­tain­ing 225 pack­ets of Colom­bian “creepy” cannabis. Of­fi­cers al­so found a quan­ti­ty of co­caine.

The cannabis weighed 207.9 kilo­grammes while the co­caine weighed 0.5 kilo­grammes.

Po­lice said the nar­cotics have an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $23,104,720.

One sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the seizure. Po­lice did not re­lease the iden­ti­ty of the sus­pect up to Thurs­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said the ex­er­cise in­volved co­or­di­na­tion among of­fi­cers as­signed to spe­cial­ist units and mem­bers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

Po­lice said in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions and col­lab­o­ra­tion among units re­main part of ef­forts to dis­rupt or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and re­move firearms and nar­cotics from com­mu­ni­ties.