An in­tel­li­gence-led erad­i­ca­tion ex­er­cise on Fri­day in Mo­ri­ah, To­ba­go, re­sult­ed in the de­struc­tion of ap­prox­i­mate­ly $5 mil­lion worth of cannabis.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, Po­lice Con­sta­ble An­toine led a group of of­fi­cers ap­prox­i­mate­ly 900 me­tres in­to a forest­ed area near the Springs of Cas­tara in Cas­tara. There, the of­fi­cers de­tect­ed a strong scent of cannabis.

A search of the lo­ca­tion un­cov­ered ap­prox­i­mate­ly 626 grow­ing cannabis trees and 1,500 grams of dried plant-like ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling cannabis.