Law en­force­ment of­fi­cials say they dis­rupt­ed two sus­pect­ed hu­man traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day, de­tain­ing 45 peo­ple across Trinidad in one of the coun­try’s largest co­or­di­nat­ed crack­downs to date.

In the ear­ly hours, the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty’s Counter Traf­fick­ing Unit (CTU), sup­port­ed by mul­ti­ple law en­force­ment branch­es, ex­e­cut­ed Op­er­a­tion G-Ride at a res­i­dence on St Vin­cent Street, Tu­na­puna.

Of­fi­cers found 17 in­di­vid­u­als—12 women aged 18 to 26, two men, one 16-year-old girl and two ba­bies. All were Venezue­lan na­tion­als ex­cept for one ba­by, who is Trinida­di­an.