850 cannabis trees and 80 lb of cured cannabis destroyed in Moruga
Trinidad and Tobago police destroyed 850 cannabis trees, a seedling bed and about 80 lb of cured cannabis in four fields in La Lune Forest, Moruga, on 3 December 2020. Police put the street value at $16 million; no one was arrested and investigations continued.
🇹🇹 La Lune Forest, Moruga, Trinidad · Trinidad and Tobago
Plants destroyed
850
Cannabis
36.29 kg
Agencies
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Trinidad and Tobago Regiment
Police destroyed marijuana with an estimated street value of $16 million during
an operation in the Moruga district between 7am and 2pm on Thursday 3 December
2020.[1]According to a media release from the Trinidad and Tobago Police
Service, officers proceeded several miles into the La Lune Forest, where they
discovered and destroyed four marijuana fields located on approximately four and
a half lots of land.[1]
The fields contained 850 fully grown trees, one seedling bed and one drying rack
with approximately 80 pounds of cured marijuana.[1]The cured marijuana was
seized and destroyed during the eradication exercise in Moruga on Thursday 3
December 2020.[2]The operation was led by officers of the Special
Investigation Unit, the Air Support Unit, the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment and
its Special Forces, the Southern Division Task Force and the Multi-Operational
Police Section.[1]
No one was arrested.[1]Investigations are continuing.[1]
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Marijuana trees being destroyed during the eradication exercise in Moruga. Photo: TTPS.Photo details
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Source: Trinidad GuardianThe fields where the marijuana was cultivated, destroyed during the eradication exercise in Moruga. Photo: TTPS.Photo details
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Source: Trinidad GuardianAnother view of the fields where the marijuana was cultivated, destroyed during the eradication exercise in Moruga. Photo: TTPS.Photo details
The dollar value is reported without a currency code and is recorded as Trinidad and Tobago dollars given the TTPS context.
The 80-pound weight is approximate and is converted to about 36.29 kg; no separate laboratory figure was published.
No count was published for the seedlings in the seedling bed, and the four and a half lots of land were not converted to hectares.
Both opened accounts reproduce the TTPS media release, so the facts rest on a single underlying police account.
The Guardian capture uses soft hyphens and the Youthere1 page displays its date as 4/12/2020, which is read as 4 December 2020, a day after the operation; the operation itself is dated 3 December 2020 in both accounts.
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.
