The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service seized a total of 2.2 tonnes of marijuana in a 24-hour period.
Commissioner of Police, Allister Guevarro, commended his officers following the TT$56 million marijuana drug bust off South Central Road, Cap-de-Ville, Point Fortin, where police discovered 23 bales of cannabis, wrapped in black plastic.
The intelligence-led seizure on Thursday comes 24 hours after police announced a radar-assisted find of illegal narcotics in the Caroni Swamp valued at over $171 million.
In commenting on the operation, Commissioner Guevarro stated that he measures the value of the find not in money but in the lives protected from the scourge of illegal narcotics.
“In a 24-hour period, the TTPS took two tonnes, 2.2 tonnes of marijuana off the streets that would have been flooding and creating havoc and fueling crime.”
Commissioner Guevarro reaffirmed that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service will continue to apply maximum effort in the fight against crime and disrupt these criminal enterprises.
He also explained why no arrests were made in connection with any of the recent drug busts.
“The resources that are placed under my remit to treat with crime in Trinidad and Tobago is one that I must weigh and measure on a daily basis to see where they must reside, and I would be very hard-pressed to leave my officers in the bush to wait or in the swamp to wait for someone to come back and collect their 1.5 tonnes of marijuana, when persons would have heard a boat going up there with the police.”