Months of sur­veil­lance and in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion by law en­force­ment in T&T and Bar­ba­dos re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a Colom­bian na­tion­al and the seizure of mar­i­jua­na with a street val­ue of $72,063,420.

In June, of­fi­cers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) be­gan in­ves­ti­gat­ing a per­son of in­ter­est who was sus­pect­ed of con­trol­ling a drug ring based in cen­tral Trinidad with re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al links.

The sus­pect and an­oth­er man board­ed a flight to Bar­ba­dos in late June. Bar­ba­dos law en­force­ment was no­ti­fied and their as­sis­tance was re­quest­ed.

The TTPS con­tin­ued gath­er­ing in­tel­li­gence and work­ing with Bar­ba­dos law en­force­ment, and as a re­sult, dis­cov­ered that on Ju­ly 29 a ship­ment of drugs land­ed in Bar­ba­dos.

This in­tel­li­gence was fur­ther de­vel­oped and on Au­gust 2 Bar­ba­dos law en­force­ment breached the “stash house” where they found and seized 481 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na with a street val­ue of $72,063,420.

A Colom­bian na­tion­al was ar­rest­ed at the house.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.