A 19-year-old male of Guar­ra­ta Vil­lage, Mara­cas, St Joseph, is in po­lice cus­tody for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

A po­lice press re­lease stat­ed that of­fi­cers of the Mara­cas/St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion, were con­duct­ing a rov­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cise yes­ter­day morn­ing along Mara­cas Roy­al Road, Mara­cas, St Joseph. Up­on reach­ing Guar­rat­ta Vil­lage, of­fi­cers are said to have ob­served the man plac­ing sev­er­al block-shaped pack­ages in­to a knap­sack.

It is al­leged that the man ran in the op­po­site di­rec­tion when he saw the of­fi­cers. A chase en­sued and he was held a short dis­tance away.

Po­lice say a search of the knap­sack re­vealed four block-shaped pack­ages wrapped in plas­tic. In­spec­tion of the pack­ages re­vealed a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na amount­ing to 2.15 ki­los.

The mar­i­jua­na was seized. The man was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Mara­cas/St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ex­pect­ed to be charged.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by ACP Andy Bel­fon, Snr Supt Ramdeen, Supt Mon­trichard, ASP Cog­gins and In­sp Beep­at and was su­per­vised by Sgt Singh Sgt (Ag) Strak­er and Cpl Grif­fith.

PC Tan­nis is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.