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Police, Coast Guard (TTCG) and “international partners” in­ter­­cepted a vessel police said was carrying drugs from Venezuela to Trinidad and seized marijuana valued at more than $29 million early yesterday.

On Thursday, a specialised unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) received credible intelligence indicating that a large consignment of high-grade Colombian “Creepy” marijua­na was being transported from Venezuela to Trinidad aboard a fishing vessel, the TTPS said in a release yesterday.

When the information was corroborated by international counterparts, the specialised TTPS unit immediately co-ordinated with the TTCG, alerting them to the movement of the vessel, it said.