Three men were ar­rest­ed and ap­prox­i­mate­ly $8 mil­lion in co­caine was seized by the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NDTF) on Sat­ur­day.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, po­lice of­fi­cers were on pa­trol in St He­le­na when they got a tip-off about two ve­hi­cles trans­port­ing the drugs and pulled them over.

Po­lice say a white pick-up and a black car were stopped and searched. In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they found two suit­cas­es con­tain­ing 23 pack­ets of co­caine in the ve­hi­cles.

The drugs weighed 20 kilo­grammes.

The three men, two from Pi­ar­co and one from Gas­par­il­lo, were ar­rest­ed.

Sgt Pitt of the NDTF led the ex­er­cise.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent on Sun­day, of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Task Force found a gun and nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in Laven­tille.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, po­lice were tipped off that there were a group of men lim­ing on Ce­les­tine Dri­ve, Trou Macaque, Laven­tille and went in­to the area.

When the group saw the po­lice, they ran off. Po­lice al­so searched a bushy area where the group had been lim­ing and found a Glock pis­tol, loaded with nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Snr Supt Flo­rence Hodge-Grif­fith led the ex­er­cise, while Ag In­sp Mc Guirk su­per­vised.