Po­lice de­stroyed an es­ti­mat­ed TT$200,000 worth of cannabis plants and dis­man­tled a cannabis grow­house dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Rio Claro for­est on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) me­dia re­lease, of­fi­cers up­root­ed and de­stroyed 360 cannabis plants dur­ing the in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise, which formed part of Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E.

The op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed be­tween 5:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. by of­fi­cers of the Jun­gle Op­er­a­tions Team, Air Sup­port Unit, East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit.