PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 25, CMC – Police say they have seized more than 60 mobile phones, as well as a quantity of illegal drugs and cash following a special operation at the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca, east of here on Tuesday night.
A Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) statement said that officers had to “crawl through several meters of cramped ceiling vents” at the prison in order to seize the “massive haul of contraband”
It said that the operation was part of an intelligence-led operation coordinated by Commissioner of Police, Allister Guevarro, and that the near four hour exercise resulted in the seizure of 62 cellular phones, 235 packs of cigarettes, three kilogrammes of marijuana, eight grammes of cocaine, one solar panel charger and a quantity of chargers and USB cords.
In addition, the police said they also retrieved one four-inch carving knife, a kettle, a shortened cutlass, TT$2,012 (One Tt dollar=US$0.16 cents), as well as electrical circuits powered by rechargeable batteries and four digital scales.
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