75-year-old held as 7.7 kg of marijuana found in barrel in Maraval
Police in Maraval, Trinidad, arrested a 75-year-old woman after finding 12 brown packages with 7.7 kilogrammes of marijuana hidden in a barrel at her home on 4 April 2022. Police put the estimated street value at TT$103,950 and said investigations were continuing.
Officers of the Special Investigations Unit and the Maraval Criminal
Investigations Department conducted an intelligence-led exercise in the Western
Division on Monday 4 April 2022.[1]The exercise ran between 5 pm and 8 pm.[1]During the exercise officers executed a search warrant at the Maraval home
of a 75-year-old female suspect.[1]The woman who was in the house at the time
was arrested in connection with the find.[1]The suspect was 75 years old.[1]
The search of the premises resulted in the seizure of 12 brown packages
containing 7.7 kilogrammes of marijuana, which officers found hidden inside a
barrel.[1]Police put the estimated street value of the seized drug at
TT$103,950.[1]
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service said its various operational units
continue to engage in anti-crime exercises.[1]It said the aim is removing
illegal guns and drugs off the streets and out of the hands of criminal
elements.[1]Investigations into all the matters were continuing.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The release's summary sentence describes the Maraval arrest as of a male suspect, while its detailed account says the woman in the house was arrested; this report follows the detailed account.
Only one source could be opened; reprints of the same TTPS release on other outlets could not be accessed, and social-media snippets are not evidence.
No charges, plea or court outcome were reported; the release says investigations are continuing.
The TT$103,950 figure is the police estimate of street value, not a confirmed sale price.
The same release also reports a separate Eastern Division vehicle seizure of over one kilogramme of marijuana and Southern Division firearms and robbery arrests; those are different events left out of this report.
Trinidad and Tobago police arrested six people during Operation R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield sweeps in the Siparia, Santa Flora and Erin districts on 9 September 2026, four of them at a Francis Trace, Santa Flora residence over marijuana possession. A 19-year-old priority offender allegedly had 320 grammes of marijuana.
Police held a 22-year-old man in Moruga on 17 September 2025 for possessing 2.02 kg of marijuana for trafficking, and found another 186.1 g unattended in Basse Terre. Two other men were held in the same joint exercise for drunk driving and a larceny inquiry, while officers issued 20 traffic notices.
Trinidad and Tobago police arrested a Trincity man on 15 August 2025 after they saw him pass two foil packets of cannabis through a gate on Dickson Street, Arouca, during a roving North-Central Division operation. A search found the packets and cash, and he was held at Arouca Police Station for trafficking in cannabis.
Central Division officers searched the home of a 21-year-old man on Southern Main Road, Caroni, and found four packages of marijuana weighing 2.1 kg, which police valued at TT$65,000. The man was arrested and taken with the drugs to the Couva Police Station, where inquiries continued.
