Massive seizure of illicit goods in South Oropouche

Au­thor­i­ties have seized more than 2,700 il­lic­it and un­safe items dur­ing a ma­jor an­ti-il­lic­it trade op­er­a­tion in South Oropouche, un­der­scor­ing the scale of il­le­gal goods cir­cu­lat­ing in lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

The ini­tia­tive, code-named “DUN­WICH 5/2026”, was car­ried out on Wednes­day by of­fi­cers of the South Oropouche Po­lice Dis­trict in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mul­ti­ple state agen­cies. In­ves­ti­ga­tors con­fis­cat­ed 1,016 un­reg­is­tered male en­hance­ment and as­sort­ed phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal prod­ucts, 940 il­lic­it cig­a­rettes, 470 un­cer­ti­fied elec­tri­cal and con­sumer items, and 320 coun­ter­feit brand-name cloth­ing ar­ti­cles.

The first raid oc­curred around 11:20 a.m. at a su­per­mar­ket along South­ern Main Road, where coun­ter­feit cloth­ing, cel­lu­lar ac­ces­sories, de­fec­tive im­port­ed match­es, and un­reg­is­tered phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals were found. Of­fi­cials al­so iden­ti­fied elec­tri­cal, fire, and oc­cu­pa­tion­al safe­ty breach­es. The pro­pri­etor was warned and or­dered to cor­rect the de­fi­cien­cies with­in a set time­frame.

Lat­er, at 2:05 p.m., of­fi­cers in­spect­ed an­oth­er su­per­mar­ket in Pep­per Vil­lage, Fyz­abad. There, they un­cov­ered ad­di­tion­al il­lic­it cig­a­rettes, coun­ter­feit ap­par­el, un­cer­ti­fied elec­tri­cal prod­ucts, and un­reg­is­tered phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals. Fire and safe­ty vi­o­la­tions were al­so de­tect­ed, in­clud­ing locked emer­gency ex­its and ex­posed wiring. No­tices were is­sued for cor­rec­tive ac­tion.

By 4:00 p.m., the op­er­a­tion ex­tend­ed to a res­i­dence at Er­ic Joseph Street, Mon De­sir Road, Dow Vil­lage, where a search war­rant was ex­e­cut­ed based on in­tel­li­gence about il­lic­it to­bac­co stor­age. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the ori­gin and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the seized items are on­go­ing, with pos­si­ble charges un­der the To­bac­co Con­trol Act, Trade­mark Act, and Stan­dards Act.

Of­fi­cials from the Chem­istry Food and Drugs Di­vi­sion cau­tioned that sev­er­al seized male en­hance­ment prod­ucts may con­tain un­safe sub­stances such as Silde­nafil, which can pose se­ri­ous health risks if mis­used.

The co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise in­volved per­son­nel from the TTPS Mul­ti-Agency Task Force, South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from the Min­istries of Health, Fi­nance, Trade and In­dus­try, Labour, Pub­lic Util­i­ties, and the Fire Ser­vice. Over­all su­per­vi­sion was pro­vid­ed by Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Natasha George.

Au­thor­i­ties reaf­firmed their com­mit­ment to re­mov­ing il­lic­it goods from cir­cu­la­tion and pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens’ health and safe­ty.