PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 3, CMC – Police say they have seized more than 108 kilograms of high-grade cannabis with a street value of approximately TT$11.9 million (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) during an anti-crime exercise conducted in the North Central Division over the last weekend.
A police statement said that officers from the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Task Force (NDTF) South, working in collaboration with a Specialist Unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) conducted he exercise after receiving intelligence information from a specialist unit that a vehicle was “conveying firearms and narcotics” along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway.
The police said that following a brief chase, the driver who is known to the police abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot, evading capture.
“A subsequent search of the vehicle led to the discovery of five bales containing 179 packets of Colombian “Creepy” Cannabis, with a combined weight of 108.89 kilograms,” the police said, adding that the vehicle and narcotics were seized.
The police said investigations are ongoing, and the arrest of the suspect is imminent.
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