Two arrested in Santa Cruz sweep with 132 g of marijuana and 17 trees
Trinidad and Tobago police arrested a 35-year-old woman found with 132 grammes of marijuana and Defence Force camouflage kits at her Upper Santa Cruz home, and a 32-year-old man held with marijuana in a separate incident. A sweep of a bushy area off Conrad Street also netted 17 fully grown marijuana trees, which police valued at TT$20,000.
🇹🇹 Upper Santa Cruz, Trinidad · Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service officers arrested a woman and a man
separately for marijuana possession during an anti-crime exercise in Santa Cruz.[1]The exercise ran from 10 pm on Wednesday 14 July to 2 am on Thursday 15
July 2021.[1]
At the home of a 35-year-old woman on Pipiol Road, Spice Hill, Upper Santa Cruz,
police found 132 grammes of marijuana.[1]Officers also found Trinidad and
Tobago Defence Force camouflage kits at her home.[1]The items, including the
marijuana, were seized and she was arrested.[1]The woman said the kits
belonged to the father of her child, a serving Defence Force member who had
recently moved out of the home.[1]
In a separate incident, officers arrested a 32-year-old man of Blackford Street,
Cantaro Village, Upper Santa Cruz, for possessing a quantity of marijuana.[1]In a bushy area off Conrad Street, Cantaro Village, police found and seized 17
fully grown marijuana trees, which they valued at TT$20,000 on the street.[1]
Senior Superintendent Winston Maharaj led the exercise, with ASP Pariman, and it
included the NED Gang and Intelligence Unit, the NED Task Force, the Special
Intelligence Unit and the Canine Unit.[1]Police said investigations were
continuing.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Plants destroyed
17
Cannabis
132 g
Value (official estimate)
TTD 20,000
Agency
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (132 g); Living plants (17 plants)
The release gives no court charges, so only arrests are recorded; it is not clear whether anyone was charged after the exercise.
The man's marijuana amount and street value are not given, and the release does not link the 17 trees to either arrested person.
The TT$20,000 is the police's estimate of the street value of the 17 trees.
The Guardian states it reproduced a Police Service media release; the Service's own post of the release could not be opened, so only one accessible account is cited.
The page carries no byline, and 14 July 2021 is the first day of the exercise window the release gives.
The page's only image is uncaptioned and credited to no one, so no claim is made that it shows the seizure.
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.
