A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed and charged af­ter mu­nic­i­pal po­lice al­leged­ly found co­caine and mar­i­jua­na in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing a pa­trol in Curepe on Tues­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice said Act­ing Woman Cor­po­ral Ri­va Ram­la­gan, Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble Shiv­ana James and Con­sta­ble Pe­ter Thomp­son were on mo­bile pa­trol near the Ch­agua­nas/Cunu­pia Taxi Stand on Have­lock Street at 4.47 p.m. when they saw the man act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly.

Po­lice said the man looked at the of­fi­cers and at­tempt­ed to dis­card a black plas­tic bag.