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A woman was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice dis­cov­ered more than $1.8 mil­lion in cash at a house in Mar­aval dur­ing an ear­ly-morn­ing op­er­a­tion yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed be­tween 4 am and 8 am on Wednes­day in the Mar­aval dis­trict. It in­volved of­fi­cers from the West End and Mar­aval Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), along with the West End Po­lice Sta­tion, West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, West­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit, In­ter-Agency Task Force, and the Ca­nine Unit.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers searched the home of a male sus­pect and found a safe con­tain­ing TT$1,853,600 and $837 in Bar­ba­di­an cur­ren­cy. They al­so seized four po­lice patch­es and a pair of black tac­ti­cal pants.