The Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed a ship­ment con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na and a firearm dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion at a Cus­toms Bond­ed Area in Port-of-Spain on Mon­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a Min­istry of Fi­nance me­dia re­lease, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a de­tailed ex­am­i­na­tion of car­go con­signed to a re­tired Cus­toms and Ex­cise Guard and dis­cov­ered 11 pack­ages con­tain­ing a green plant-like sub­stance be­lieved to be mar­i­jua­na, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $1.4 mil­lion.

Of­fi­cers al­so found a sep­a­rate pack­age con­tain­ing a black metal­lic ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm con­cealed in­side a wash­er and dry­er.