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A 21-year-old Matelot man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a joint team of po­lice, sol­diers and Coast Guard of­fi­cers raid­ed a for­est en­camp­ment and mar­i­jua­na field on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU), the Reg­i­ment’s Spe­cial Forces and the Coast Guard’s Spe­cial Naval Unit (SNU) ad­vanced about three miles in­to Matelot, east of San­ta Cruz Road, where they found a “siz­able plan­ta­tion” of mar­i­jua­na plants.

The of­fi­cers saw two men in the field, and one of them point­ed a gun at them.