Coast Guard intercepts pirogue with suspected narcotics

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard in­ter­cept­ed a pirogue car­ry­ing four men and a quan­ti­ty of pack­ages sus­pect­ed to con­tain nar­cotics in the north­ern Gulf of Paria on Mon­day.

The pack­ages were in­di­vid­u­al­ly wrapped in plas­tic.

The ves­sel was es­cort­ed to Coast Guard Head­quar­ters at Staubles Bay, Ch­aguara­mas, where fur­ther search­es were con­duct­ed.

The four men, the pack­ages and the ves­sel were then hand­ed over to law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties for fur­ther pro­cess­ing.