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A serv­ing po­lice of­fi­cer in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is among three na­tion­als held by the US and lo­cal law en­force­ment on charges of con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine and firearms in­to the Unit­ed States.

A state­ment from the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day said that per­son­nel from the US Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion Vet­ted Unit, sup­port­ed by the TTPS’ Spe­cial In­ves­tiga­tive Unit and the Transna­tion­al Or­gan­ised Crime Unit, ex­e­cut­ed three Pro­vi­sion­al Ar­rest War­rants on De­cem­ber 30, 2025, for Trinidad cit­i­zens Rafael Joseph, Michael Mc­Sween, and Clevon Per­sad.

It said all three face charges in the East­ern Dis­trict of New York for con­spir­a­cy to im­port co­caine in­to the US and firearms of­fences stem­ming from a 2024 DEA in­ves­ti­ga­tion sup­port­ed by the DEA New York Field Di­vi­sion.