Three arrested as police seize cannabis in northern division operations

Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three peo­ple and seized a quan­ti­ty of cannabis dur­ing a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions across the North­ern North Di­vi­sion on Sun­day.

The pri­ma­ry sweep, con­duct­ed un­der State of Emer­gency (SOE) pro­to­cols, tar­get­ed mul­ti­ple lo­ca­tions in­clud­ing Cin­na­mon Cres­cent in San­ta Rosa and Moon­light­ing Dri­ve in Waller­field. The op­er­a­tion cul­mi­nat­ed at King­dom Av­enue in Ma­tu­ri­ta, where law en­force­ment searched a mi­ni-mart and an ad­join­ing res­i­dence.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered ap­prox­i­mate­ly 105 grams of cannabis hid­den in­side a wardrobe. A 43-year-old woman was ar­rest­ed at the scene and cau­tioned for cannabis pos­ses­sion. She was sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the Pin­to Po­lice Post along with the seized drugs.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent dur­ing the same Sun­day af­ter­noon ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers from the North­ern North Task Force clamped down on a dis­rup­tion near Hoyte Av­enue in Ma­tu­ri­ta. A man was ar­rest­ed there for dis­or­der­ly be­hav­iour and us­ing ob­scene lan­guage.

Su­per­in­ten­dent McKen­zie and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Bale­wa spear­head­ed the di­vi­sion-wide drag­net. The tar­get­ed ex­er­cis­es were co­or­di­nat­ed by Sergeant Tran­coso and Act­ing Sergeant For­ge­nie, with di­rect su­per­vi­sion pro­vid­ed by Act­ing Cor­po­ral Dedi­er. The op­er­a­tions uti­lized a com­bined force from the Pin­to Po­lice Post, North­ern North CID, the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, and the TTPS Ca­nine Unit.

Mean­while, in an en­tire­ly sep­a­rate de­vel­op­ment, a 37-year-old Clax­ton Bay man faces crim­i­nal charges fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion on Thurs­day night along Boukal Trace in For­res Park.

Fol­low­ing in­tense in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Thurs­day in­ci­dent, the sus­pect was of­fi­cial­ly charged with as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm and pos­ses­sion of a weapon. He is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore a San Fer­nan­do mag­is­trate on Mon­day to an­swer to the charges.