An in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise which was con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion un­der the su­per­vi­sion of As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau, De­osaran on Wednes­day 26th Jan­u­ary, 2022 led to the ar­rest of four Chi­nese na­tion­als and the seizure of over $8 mil­lion worth of il­le­gal drugs and a quan­ti­ty of cash in the Trinci­ty area.

Ac­cord­ing to this press re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Se­vices, of­fi­cers found and seized 201 glass vials, each la­belled ‘Ke­t­a­min 10% INJ 23ml for Vet­eri­nary Use On­ly’, along with 76 zip lock pack­ets each con­tain­ing a white crys­tal-like sub­stance re­sem­bling the dan­ger­ous drug Ke­t­a­mine. The of­fi­cers al­so found and seized $33,775 TT cur­ren­cy in poly­mer notes, $865 Yen, $53 TT cur­ren­cy in cot­ton notes and a quan­ti­ty of ap­pa­ra­tus. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Four Chi­nese na­tion­als were ar­rest­ed and over $8 mil­lion worth of il­le­gal drugs and a quan­ti­ty of cash were con­fis­cat­ed af­ter a drug bust in Trinci­ty.

The in­ci­dent took place dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise which was con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion un­der the su­per­vi­sion of As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau, De­osaran on Wednes­day 26th Jan­u­ary, 2022. Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion was ex­e­cut­ed at a res­i­dence lo­cat­ed at Olympia Av­enue, Mil­len­ni­um Park, Trinci­ty.

Dur­ing a search of the premis­es of­fi­cers found and seized 201 glass vials, each la­belled ‘Ke­t­a­min 10% INJ 23ml for Vet­eri­nary Use On­ly’, along with76 zip lock pack­ets each con­tain­ing a white crys­tal-like sub­stance re­sem­bling the dan­ger­ous drug Ke­t­a­mine. The of­fi­cers al­so found and seized $33,775 TT cur­ren­cy in poly­mer notes, $865 Yen, $53 TT cur­ren­cy in cot­ton notes and a quan­ti­ty of ap­pa­ra­tus.

JAICHENG JIANG, 26, was ar­rest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly charged by PC Ger­ald of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU) with pos­ses­sion of dan­ger­ous drug, name­ly Ke­t­a­mine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing. The Ke­t­a­mine which weighed 12.7 kilo­grams had a street val­ue of $8,623,300.

On Fri­day 28th Jan­u­ary, 2022 a de­ten­tion or­der was grant­ed by Mag­is­trate Dubay at the Ari­ma Mag­is­trate Court with re­spect to the quan­ti­ty of cash seized at the premis­es, pend­ing fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions in ac­cor­dance with the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act.

Three oth­er Chi­nese na­tion­als, two men aged 38 and 29 and a 27-year-old woman who were found at the premis­es were al­so ar­rest­ed. Fur­ther en­quiries re­vealed that they were in the coun­try il­le­gal­ly, the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion is con­duct­ing in­quiries.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.