7.2 kg cannabis seized, 34-year-old held in Chaguanas raids
Central Division officers seized about 7.2 kg of cannabis in two operations near the Caroni Bird Sanctuary and on Enterprise Street, Chaguanas, on 9 March 2025. A 34-year-old Enterprise man was arrested at the Chaguanas house, and police put the combined street value at TT$135,000 with investigations continuing.
🇹🇹 Enterprise Street, Chaguanas and Caroni Bird Sanctuary area, Central Division · Trinidad and Tobago
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Arrested
1
Cannabis
7.2 kg
Agencies
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
Police arrested a 34-year-old man from Enterprise during intelligence-led
operations in the Central Division.[1]Officers searched a residence on
Enterprise Street in Chaguanas between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM and found four
plastic packets of cannabis weighing about 1.8 kilograms.[1]The man was taken
into custody at the Chaguanas Police Station.[1]
Officers found a black plastic bag hidden under a parked forty-foot container
trailer west of the Uriah Butler Highway near the Caroni Bird Sanctuary.[1]The bag held ten brown plastic packets of cannabis weighing about 5.4 kilograms,
with a police-estimated street value of $100,000 TTD.[1]Police put the street
value of the Enterprise Street cannabis at $35,000 TTD.[1]
Senior Central Division officers supervised the operations with help from the
TTPS K-9 Unit and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Special Operations
Force.[1]Investigations into the Caroni seizure were ongoing under Cpl.
Carter.[1]Investigations into the Enterprise Street seizure were continuing
under PC Ramnath of the Special Operations Unit.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Cannabis
7.2 kg
Value (official estimate)
TTD 135,000
Agencies
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service; Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
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.
TTPS destroyed 8.3 tonnes of narcotics (5.22t marijuana, 3.08t cocaine, ecstasy and heroin) worth TT$1.6B at Caroni on 29 September 2026, calling it 1% of GDP seized from the local drug mafia. No new arrests were tied to the destruction.
