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A man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice seized nar­cotics with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of more than $23 mil­lion dur­ing an ex­er­cise in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Thurs­day.

Po­lice said the op­er­a­tion was car­ried out on March 5, 2026, by of­fi­cers of two spe­cial­ist units of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, mem­bers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force and the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, in­tel­li­gence re­ceived in­di­cat­ed that a drug traf­fick­ing net­work op­er­at­ing with­in the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion had im­port­ed a quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics from South Amer­i­ca.