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Po­lice say they made a ma­jor mar­i­jua­na seizure worth $47 mil­lion fol­low­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed by the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said of­fi­cers of the SIU ex­e­cut­ed the ex­er­cise be­tween 1 pm and 4.30 pm un­der the lead­er­ship of Snr Supt Ed­wards, Supt Eti­enne, ASP Lynch and ASP Morales, with sup­port from the In­ter-Agency Task Force. The op­er­a­tion was based on ac­tion­able in­tel­li­gence.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched a res­i­dence in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion, 2025. Po­lice said the search un­cov­ered 10 cro­cus bags and five garbage bags con­tain­ing cannabis. The drugs were lat­er weighed at 413.68 kilo­grammes and val­ued at $47,687,266.44.