A quan­ti­ty of cannabis was seized by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force, Fort Cha­con Base, in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion this af­ter­noon.

The of­fi­cers con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise around 12:40 pm, on March 13 dur­ing which they pro­ceed­ed to Main Street, Beetham Gar­dens, where they saw a man dressed in black with a black bag in his pos­ses­sion. On see­ing the of­fi­cers, the man ran off.

A search of the area led to the dis­cov­ery of a plas­tic bag con­tain­ing 500 grammes of cannabis.

The same par­ty of of­fi­cers then pro­ceed­ed to Sixth Street, where they found an­oth­er bag with two brown pack­ages, al­so con­tain­ing 500 grammes of cannabis.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the finds.