Trinidad and Tobago authorities said on Saturday 13 September 2025 that they had seized 268 kilos of marijuana, valued at 29 million dollars, two days earlier.[1][2] Police found the drug in a fishing boat from Venezuela.[1][2] Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro said the operation showed the strength of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service intelligence apparatus and of precision policing backed by regional and international partners.[1] US authorities said the boat was being used to carry illegal drugs to the United States.[1][2]

Officers confiscated nine bags holding 268 packages of cannabis wrapped in brown paper, found in the sea near the boat, with an estimated weight of 268 kilograms and a street value of 29,412,196 dollars.[1][2] Three people on the boat jumped into the sea, while two others, a Trinidadian and a Latin American, stayed aboard and were detained and taken to Staubles Bay in Chaguaramas.[1][2]

Guevarro said illegal drug trafficking is a transnational threat that undermines security across the Caribbean and that no single man or island can fight it alone.[1] Trinidad and Tobago backs the United States deployment of ships and marines in the Caribbean to combat drug trafficking.[1]

NTN24 reported that the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard seized 268 kilogrammes of marijuana from a fishing boat believed to have come from Venezuela.[3] NTN24, citing journalist Gabriel Bastidas, said two people were detained while three other crew members jumped into the sea and escaped.[3] NTN24 put the value of the seized drug at least at 29 million dollars.[3] NTN24 placed the interception in the middle of a United States military build-up in the Caribbean against drug trafficking.[3] The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service said Coast Guard patrols intercepted the pirogue off the Point Fortin coastline at about 3 a.m. on 12 September 2025.[4] A specialised unit under the Ministry of Homeland Security learned on 11 September 2025 that a consignment of Colombian “Creepy” marijuana was being brought from Venezuela aboard a fishing vessel.[4] Officers recovered nine crocus bags holding 268 brown-wrapped packets of cannabis from the sea around the vessel.[4] The two detained men, the vessel and the exhibits were taken to Staubles Bay and handed to police, and officers kept searching for the three who fled.[4]