A magistrate fined 32-year-old Clement Boodramsingh $9,000 for marijuana possession, with 30 days’ hard labour in default. Police arrested him after a warrant search of his Arima home found 640 grammes of marijuana.
🇹🇹 Cocorite Road, Arima, Trinidad · Trinidad and Tobago
Clement Boodramsingh, a 32-year-old man living on Cocorite Road in Arima, was
fined $9,000 for possession of marijuana.[1]If he failed to pay the fine, the
alternative was 30 days’ hard labour.[2]He appeared virtually before
Magistrate Debby-Ann Bassaw at the Arima Magistrates’ Court.[1]
The case followed a police warrant search of his home.[1]Police said his
arrest took place during an anti-crime exercise conducted by officers of the
Area East Operations Unit, members of the Canine Unit and the Trinidad and
Tobago Air Guard (TTAG).[1]On 22 April, between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., officers
executed a search warrant at his home.[1]They found marijuana weighing 640
grammes in the house.[1]Officers then arrested him, took him to La Horquetta
Police Station and subsequently charged him.[1]
Sergeant Caldon and Corporal Durity supervised the operation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Cannabis
640 g
Prison
30 days’ hard labour in default of the fine
Fine
TTD 9,000
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Possession
Setting
Home
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Fine
Sources
CNC3cnc3.co.ttArima man charged with marijuana possession fined $9000
The account says Boodramsingh appeared in court “today”; the 23 April 2021 court date is inferred from the page date, while the search and arrest are dated 22 April.
The fine is shown only as $9,000; TTD is inferred from the local context.
The Guardian and CNC3 accounts repeat the same police-based text; no independent report or police statement was opened.
The Guardian page’s only image has no event caption or alt text, so it is not established as showing the search or seizure and is omitted from media.
No street value for the cannabis was reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in CNC3: Superintendent Edwards, Assistant Superintendent Coggins and Inspector Pitt coordinated the exercise.
Trinidad and Tobago police and Coast Guard officers found 17 bales holding 1,155 packets of cannabis, 661.9 kg in all, after a beach landing at Chatham Beach, Cedros, on 4 November 2026. The people unloading the boat escaped out to sea in a pirogue and no arrests were reported; the TTPS valued the haul at TT$19,833,171.60.
Trinidad and Tobago police seized nine packets of cannabis weighing about 350 g, worth TT$45,000, from an empty lot at Ramdhani Trace, Debe, on 30 October 2026, plus ten rounds of 9 mm ammunition from an abandoned structure. A house search was negative and no arrests were reported.
Trinidad and Tobago police seized about 2.2 kg of cannabis from three locations in Port-of-Spain during Operation B.L.A.S.T. on 29 September 2026. Officers recovered packets and loose plant material in East Dry River and Henry Street, and reported no arrests.
Two Venezuelan men were sentenced to six years of hard labour each after pleading guilty to trafficking 14.3 kg of marijuana found in fuel kegs aboard a pirogue off Point-a-Pierre in June 2020. The Coast Guard stopped the pirogue and police found fourteen marijuana packages inside one keg before a Port of Spain magistrate sentenced them in February 2022.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 14.3 kgPrison 6 years of hard labour
