A quan­ti­ty of high-grade com­pressed cannabis was seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in St. James last night, the Po­lice Ser­vice is re­port­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment, the op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed around 7:45 pm, on Wednes­day 1 Jan­u­ary 2025. It was spear­head­ed by ACP Tac­ti­cal Sup­port Col­lis Hazel, co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr. Supt. Mon­trichard, Supt. Frank and ASP Pierre, and su­per­vised by In­sps. Pi­quette and Haynes.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the po­lice of­fi­cers had re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that led them to search a house lo­cat­ed at Kan­da­har Street, where they un­earthed a suit­case, a black garbage bag and a cro­cus bag in which they found some 70 pack­ages of cannabis with a com­bined weight of 36.6 kilo­grammes.

Mean­while, dur­ing an ex­er­cise car­ried out be­tween 10 am and 8 pm on New Year’s Day, West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 25-year-old man in con­nec­tion with rob­bery of­fences.

Al­so tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody were a 38-year-old sus­pect for shoot­ing of­fences in the Diego Mar­tin area, and a 19-year-old for lar­ce­ny.

The TTPS says in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to the above mat­ters.