2,000 plants and 30 kg cannabis destroyed in Moruga
Trinidad and Tobago police destroyed about 2,000 cannabis plants and 30 kg of cured cannabis in dense forest in Moruga on 11 April 2025. Police valued the haul at TT$2.3 million; no arrests were reported and investigations continued.
Officers of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service seized and destroyed
narcotics with an estimated street value of TT$2.3 million during a Friday
eradication operation in Moruga.[1][2]The Moruga operation ran from 5:30 a.m. to
12:00 p.m. on that Friday.[1]The cannabis plantation destroyed was in Moruga.[3]The officers hiked approximately five kilometres into dense forest, where
they located and destroyed the plantation sites.[3]
Officers discovered a cannabis plantation of approximately 2,000 plants,
including fully grown trees, along with 30 kilograms of cured cannabis.[3][2]Officers located and destroyed a drying house at the site containing
approximately 30 kilogrammes of cured cannabis.[1][2]Officers destroyed a
cultivated field spanning about two lots of land holding an estimated 2,000
fully grown cannabis plants.[1]The haul therefore comprised both about 2,000
growing cannabis plants and about 30 kilograms of cured cannabis, which police
valued altogether at TT$2.3 million.[1]
No arrests were reported in either account, and investigations remain ongoing.[1]
Police held the Moruga plantation operation on 11 April 2025.[2]The Special Intelligence Unit’s Jungle Operations Team led the operation under ACP Andy Teewarie.[2]Officers of the Air Support Unit, the Southern Division Task Force and the Southern Division Gang Unit also took part.[2]
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Source: Trinidad GuardianA section of the marijuana plantation destroyed by police in Moruga. Photo courtesy TTPS.Photo details
The incident date of 11 April 2025 is inferred because both 12 April 2025 accounts describe the operation as taking place on Friday.
No arrests, charges, named suspects or court outcomes were reported.
No area in hectares was published; the field was described only as spanning about two lots of land, which cannot be reliably converted.
The exact forest location is not established beyond Moruga, so the coordinates are a district-level centre, not the field site.
The Guardian and CNC3 accounts repeat the same TTPS wording, so the record rests on a single underlying police account and no separate TTPS statement could be opened.
Newsday also reports a separate Belmont and Cascade search and arrest, a different event left out of this Moruga record.
Police destroyed more than 8,500 cannabis plants in seven fields in La Lune Forest, Moruga, and valued them at TT$8.55 million. Officers also destroyed drying equipment and disarmed two trap guns found during the operation.
Trinidad and Tobago police destroyed approximately 200 cannabis plants in a clearing off Salandy Street, Diego Martin, on 4 January 2026 during Operation Trident. Officers reached the site on foot, uprooted the plants and burned them.
Police destroyed about 250 fully grown cannabis plants valued at an estimated $125,000 in a forested area off Northside Road, Castara, during a 6-8 am eradication operation on 31 July 2025. Officers also destroyed a makeshift camp and drying rack at the site; no arrests were reported.
Police and soldiers destroyed about 626 cannabis trees and 1,500 grammes of dried marijuana in a forest near the Springs of Castara, Tobago, on 11 July 2025. Police valued the haul at TT$5,012,800 and gave no report of arrests.
