Police find 57.4 kg of cannabis in two Gasparillo apartments
Trinidad and Tobago police seized 109 packets of cannabis weighing 57.42 kg, valued at TT$6.3 million, from two apartment buildings in the Reform Phase 4 development in Gasparillo. No one was present during the searches; police said arrests were expected.
Officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service seized 109 packets of cannabis weighing 57.42 kilograms from two apartment buildings in the Reform Phase 4 Residential Development in Gasparillo on 21 February 2026.[1][2][3]Police estimated its street value at TT$6,316,200 and described the cannabis as high-grade Colombian.[1][2]
The search followed intelligence that a shipment had recently been imported from South America and was being stored in Gasparillo; further intelligence identified two premises in the development.[1][2][3]Officers carried out surveillance at both locations, then executed search warrants with support from the Southern Division Task Force.[1][2]
The drugs and TT$119,900 and US$146 in cash were concealed inside one of the apartments.[1][2]No occupants were present during the searches.[1][2][3]Police said investigations were continuing and that arrests were expected; the Express reported that arrests were “imminent”.[1][2]
The police service said the operation was part of its work against the importation, storage and distribution of illegal narcotics and involved coordination between divisions.[1]
The Jamaica Observer, reporting the police statement for the Caribbean Media Corporation, said officers carried out the search at two apartment buildings and that the TTPS said arrests were imminent.[4]The police service said the seizure showed the importance of coordination between divisions in dismantling organised criminal networks.[4]
The Guardian reported that police received information that a shipment of narcotics had been imported from South America and was being stored at a location in Gasparillo.[3]Coordination was established with the Southern Division Task Force before officers executed the search warrants at the two apartment buildings.[3]
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No one was arrested during the searches; the reports do not say whether anyone was held later.
The police did not say which of the two apartments held the drugs beyond "one of the apartments".
The TT$6,316,200 street value is the police's estimate.
The reports describe the cannabis as high-grade Colombian but do not say how it entered Trinidad.
The Guardian says arrests are 'expected', while the Express account and the TTPS statement carried by the Jamaica Observer say they are 'imminent'; both describe an unexecuted plan.
The Guardian gives the operation as taking place on 'Saturday' without repeating the date; 21 February 2026 is taken from the police statement as reported by the other outlets.
The Jamaica Observer article also reports a separate ketamine arrest in Arouca, a different event left out of this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Trinidad and Tobago Guardian: Officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service seized 109 packets of cannabis weighing 57.42 kilograms from two apartment buildings in the Reform Phase 4 Residential Development in Gasparillo on 21 February 2026.
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