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A man from Tal­paro has been ac­quit­ted of cul­ti­vat­ing a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar mar­i­jua­na plan­ta­tion in 2011.

It took a nine-mem­ber ju­ry be­fore Jus­tice Nali­ni Singh in the Port-of-Spain High Court less than an hour to de­lib­er­ate on the case and re­turn with a unan­i­mous not guilty ver­dict for Du­ane Cal­don.

Ac­cord­ing to the ev­i­dence in the case, Cal­don was ar­rest­ed and charged with mar­i­jua­na cul­ti­va­tion af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers raid­ed the plan­ta­tion at Men­doza Road, Mun­do Nue­vo, Tal­paro, on Sep­tem­ber 26, 2011.