Police destroy 1,600 cannabis trees in La Lune forest, Moruga
Southern Division officers destroyed about 1,600 cannabis trees and several seedlings in two fields in the La Lune Forest, Moruga, on 16 February 2024, a haul police valued at TT$1.6 million.
🇹🇹 La Lune Forest, Moruga, Trinidad · Trinidad and Tobago
Southern Division officers destroyed about 1,600 cannabis trees and several
seedlings during an eradication exercise in the Moruga district on Friday
16 February 2024, acting on intelligence information.[1][2]
The officers proceeded to the La Lune Forest, where two fields occupying
about three lots of land held the trees and seedlings before they were
located and destroyed.[1][2]Police put the street value of the destroyed
plants at TT$1.6 million.[1][2]The three arrests reported alongside the
exercise were for possession of one gram of cocaine each in a separate
anti-crime sweep, not for the cannabis fields.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No figure for the number of seedlings destroyed was published.
The same accounts report a separate anti-crime exercise with three arrests for possession of one gram of cocaine each, a different event left out here.
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.
