Two Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens were ar­rest­ed on De­cem­ber 10 fol­low­ing a joint op­er­a­tion by US and Trin­bag­on­ian au­thor­i­ties, the US Em­bassy in T&T con­firmed in a state­ment yes­ter­day.

Dav­eanan De­onar­ine and Michael Sam­son­dar face charges in the East­ern Dis­trict of Louisiana for con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine in­to the Unit­ed States.

The ar­rests stem from a 2023 DEA in­ves­ti­ga­tion that led to the seizure of 168 kilo­grams of co­caine in Trinidad, val­ued at over TT$234 mil­lion. The May 18, 2023 op­er­a­tion marked the largest on­land drug seizure in Trin­bag­on­ian his­to­ry.