TT$17.7M high-grade marijuana seized in South Oropouche apartment
TTPS intelligence officers raided an apartment in Dow Village, South Oropouche, in June 2024 and seized 117 packets of US- and Colombian-grown high-grade marijuana weighing 99.7 kg and worth TT$17.77 million. A 63-year-old man was arrested for possession for the purpose of trafficking.
🇹🇹 Dow Village, Siparia · Trinidad and Tobago
- Arrested
- 1
- Cannabis
- 99.7 kg
Acting on intelligence that a drug trafficking network in the south-western peninsula
had smuggled a large quantity of narcotics over the weekend, Southern Division Task
Force officers staked out and raided an apartment in Dow Village, South Oropouche,
during the hours of 1pm and 8pm on a Tuesday.[1]
Inside they found 117 packets of high-grade marijuana: 66 packets of US-grown
marijuana weighing 48.7 kg with an estimated street value of TT$12,170,378, and 51
packets of Colombian-grown marijuana weighing 51 kg worth TT$5,597,097, for a total
of 99.7 kg valued at TT$17,767,475.[1]
A 63-year-old man of South Oropouche was arrested for possession of cannabis for
the purpose of trafficking.[1]
Sources
- 18 MILLION DOLLAR HIGH GRADE MARIJUANA FIND IN SOUTH TRINIDAD. I955 FM, 5 June 2024.
Open questions the AI reported
- The map uses a Dow Village reference point, not the apartment searched; the source does not give its address.
- The exact date of the raid is inferred as Tuesday 4 June 2024 from the TTPS release dated 5 June 2024 and the report that the operation ran 1pm to 8pm on a Tuesday.
- The i955 report carries no publication date; the TTPS media release it quotes is dated 5 June 2024 but its PDF link no longer resolves, so figures rely on the opened i955 report.
- The identity of the arrested man and any court outcome have not been disclosed.