Man charged after $1.4M marijuana seizure

One man has been ar­rest­ed and charged fol­low­ing the seizure of more than $1.4 mil­lion worth of mar­i­jua­na in Port of Spain.

The ac­cused ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court and was grant­ed $1.5 mil­lion bail with sure­ty and re­port­ing con­di­tions.

The ar­rest fol­lowed an op­er­a­tion by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion on Tues­day, when of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ship­ment at a bond­ed area dur­ing a rou­tine car­go ex­am­i­na­tion.

Of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered 18 pack­ages of a green plant-like ma­te­r­i­al con­cealed in­side a house­hold ap­pli­ance. The Pre­ven­tive Branch re­spond­ed, and field tests con­firmed the sub­stance was cannabis.

Au­thor­i­ties es­ti­mat­ed the street val­ue of the seizure at $1,413,302.

The Di­vi­sion said it con­tin­ues ef­forts to pre­vent the im­por­ta­tion of il­le­gal nar­cotics.