TTDF intercepts vessel carrying suspected plant material

The Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) in­ter­cept­ed a lo­cal ves­sel dur­ing an ear­ly-morn­ing mar­itime op­er­a­tion to­day, with three Venezue­lan na­tion­als on­board and 11 cro­cus bags con­tain­ing pack­ets of com­pressed, plant-like ma­te­r­i­al dis­cov­ered dur­ing a search.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of De­fence, TTDF In­ter­cep­tor 030 in­ter­cept­ed the ves­sel, TFV 1231 CHAM­PI­ON, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1:48 a.m., about 10.8 nau­ti­cal miles south­west of Bar­ran­connes Point.

The ves­sel was se­cured and es­cort­ed to Staubles Bay, ar­riv­ing at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2:10 a.m.