1,242.9 kg of Colombian cannabis seized in Maracas inlet
Trinidad and Tobago police and coast guard seized 45 bales of Colombian Creepy cannabis weighing 1,242.9 kg from a forested bank at a secluded Maracas inlet on 4 April 2025. Police valued the 2,250 packets at TT$136,404,546 and said the consignment had arrived from South America for onward transshipment.
🇹🇹 secluded inlet on the Maracas coast, Maracas · Trinidad and Tobago
A specialist unit of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service joined the Trinidad
and Tobago Coast Guard and Northern Division officers in an intelligence-led
operation on Friday 4 April 2025 that seized over $136 million worth of cannabis
along a secluded inlet on the Maracas coast.[1][2]A specialist unit of the
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service joined the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard
and Northern Division officers in an intelligence-led operation on Friday 4
April 2025 that seized over $136 million worth of cannabis along a secluded
inlet on the Maracas coast.[3]The operation began that morning after a
confidential source told the unit that a known drug-trafficking network had
recently imported a substantial narcoticsconsignment from South America.[1][2]Police said the drugs were stashed in a remote, sea-accessible spot in the
Maracas area pending transshipment to other regional territories.[1]
Despite rough sea conditions, coast guard crews navigated marine assets to the
isolated inlet where the joint team searched.[1]The search found a large
narcotics stash hidden under dense forest cover on a bank area.[1]Officers
seized 45 bales of Colombian Creepy cannabis holding 2,250 packets with a
combined weight of 1,242.9 kilograms, which police valued at TT $136,404,546.[1]Each bale held 50 identically packed packets.[1]Officers secured the
cannabis and, with coast guard marine assets, moved it to Staubles Bay,
Chaguaramas.[1]
Deputy Commissioner Suzette Martin called the result proof of the effectiveness
of intelligence-led policing against organized crime and narcotics trafficking.[1]Investigations were continuing.[1]
Acting Commissioner of Police Junior Benjamin said the seizure showed the service’s commitment to protecting the nation from transnational criminal networks.[2]
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Police photo of the marijuana seized in Maracas on Friday, captioned as over $136 million in marijuana seized by police in Maracas.Photo details
No arrests, named suspects, charges or court outcome were reported.
The reports give the operation date of 4 April 2025 but not the date the consignment was imported from South America.
The TT$136,404,546 figure is the police-estimated street value, not an independently confirmed sale price.
Both opened accounts reproduce the TTPS account; no independent or agency-original page beyond the police statement was opened.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Youthere1: Acting Commissioner Junior Benjamin said the seizure showed the service's commitment to protecting the nation from transnational criminal networks and to working with local, regional and international partners.
The Times of Suriname published the account on 6 April 2025, crediting the Jamaica Observer, and gives no further figures such as the weight of the cannabis or any arrests.
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.
