Four held with 138 kg of cannabis on the Uriah Butler Highway
Trinidad and Tobago police arrested four men on 18 July 2021 during Operation Red Fox and seized 138 kilos of marijuana, later weighed at 137.9 kilos, from a car stopped near the Caroni Bridge. The driver was charged and denied bail at the Chaguanas Magistrates' Court, and the three men held at Grand Bazaar in Valsayn were released.
🇹🇹 northbound Uriah Butler Highway near the Caroni Bridge, Chaguanas, with later arrests at Grand Bazaar, Valsayn · Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago police arrested four men on 18 July 2021 and took 138 kilos
of marijuana from the trunk of a car on the Uriah Butler Highway.[1]
Officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), the police tactical
unit, and sniffer dog Tino began Operation Red Fox at 5 am and watched a silver
Nissan Cube in the Moruga district.[1]Around 7.15 am they intercepted the
Nissan Cube on the northbound lane near the Caroni Bridge and found a large
quantity of marijuana in the trunk.[2]Officers took the driver, a man from
L’anse Mitan Road in Moruga, and the marijuana to the St Joseph Police Station.[2]
Officers then went to Grand Bazaar, Valsayn, and arrested three men police said
were waiting to collect the same marijuana.[3]One of the three lives at La
Ruffin Road, Moruga, and drove a silver Nissan AD Wagon; another lives at
Roxborough Extension, Diego Martin, and drove a white Nissan Navarra; the third
lives at Topaz Avenue, Diamond Vale, Diego Martin.[2]The three were also
taken to the St Joseph Police Station and police seized their two vehicles.[2]A video shared on social media showed heavily armed officers leading a man out
of the Xtra Foods Supermarket at Grand Bazaar.[3]
Two days later, on 20 July 2021, Nathan Daniel of Lanse Mitan Road, Moruga
appeared in the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court charged with illegal possession of
138 kilos of marijuana and was denied bail.[4]Three other people arrested at
Grand Bazaar in connection with the same incident were later released.[4]
Photos and video
The marijuana seized by SORT officers on Sunday, shown as a police handout. Photo: Trinidad and Tobago Police ServicePhoto details
CNC3cnc3.co.ttPolice stop drug deal, arrest four suspects
IzzSoizzso.comNo bail for Moruga man held with 138 kilos of marijuana
Open questions the AI reported
The account gives 138 kilos at the interception but 137.9 kilos when the marijuana was weighed; the report records the weighed figure and keeps 138 in the text.
The reports give no street value for the marijuana.
The only charge detailed is illegal possession of the marijuana; the accounts do not say whether trafficking charges were brought or what sentence followed.
The three men arrested at Grand Bazaar were released, but the account does not say when or on what basis.
The Newsday photo is a low-resolution police handout thumbnail, 243 by 442 pixels, and no other distinct photo of the seizure could be recovered with a direct address.
No written TTPS media release was located as a separate source; the police version is reported through Newsday, CNC3 and IzzSo.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in IzzSo: When it was weighed at the police station, the marijuana came to 137.9 kilos.
Trinidad and Tobago police and Coast Guard officers found 17 bales holding 1,155 packets of cannabis, 661.9 kg in all, after a beach landing at Chatham Beach, Cedros, on 4 November 2026. The people unloading the boat escaped out to sea in a pirogue and no arrests were reported; the TTPS valued the haul at TT$19,833,171.60.
Trinidad and Tobago police seized nine packets of cannabis weighing about 350 g, worth TT$45,000, from an empty lot at Ramdhani Trace, Debe, on 30 October 2026, plus ten rounds of 9 mm ammunition from an abandoned structure. A house search was negative and no arrests were reported.
Trinidad and Tobago police seized about 2.2 kg of cannabis from three locations in Port-of-Spain during Operation B.L.A.S.T. on 29 September 2026. Officers recovered packets and loose plant material in East Dry River and Henry Street, and reported no arrests.
TTPS destroyed 8.3 tonnes of narcotics (5.22t marijuana, 3.08t cocaine, ecstasy and heroin) worth TT$1.6B at Caroni on 29 September 2026, calling it 1% of GDP seized from the local drug mafia. No new arrests were tied to the destruction.
