A Mar­aval woman was ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day, af­ter po­lice raid­ed her home in Mo­ka and found just un­der $2 mil­lion in cash in a wall safe, along with four po­lice patch­es and a pair of black tac­ti­cal pants.

The raid, which oc­curred be­tween 4 am and 8 am in the gat­ed com­mu­ni­ty, formed part of an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in ac­cor­dance with Op­er­a­tion Stead­fast.

In a state­ment, the TTPS said the ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the West End/Mar­aval Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, to­geth­er with the West End Charge Room; the West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force; the West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit; the In­ter Agency Task Force; and the Mount­ed and Ca­nine Branch.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ing to a male sus­pect, of­fi­cers went to the lo­ca­tion and car­ried out an ex­ten­sive search of the premis­es in ac­cor­dance with the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

Dur­ing the search, which was done in the pres­ence of the sus­pect’s moth­er, a safe room was found be­hind the shelves of a walk-in clos­et, and fur­ther checks re­vealed a Hon­ey­well safe which, when opened, re­port­ed­ly con­tained a quan­ti­ty of cash, in­clud­ing T&T and Bar­ba­di­an cur­ren­cy.

Fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of the mon­ey and oth­er items, of­fi­cers de­tained the woman and took her, along with the male sus­pect, to the West End Po­lice Sta­tion, where of­fi­cers from the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (FIB) were sum­moned to as­sist in count­ing the mon­ey, which amount­ed to $1,853,600 and $837 Bar­ba­di­an cur­ren­cy.

The cash was seized in ac­cor­dance with the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act. (AP)