A 21-year-old Matelot man is in po­lice cus­tody af­ter a joint team of po­lice, sol­diers and Coast Guard of­fi­cers raid­ed a for­est en­camp­ment and mar­i­jua­na field on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU), the Reg­i­ment’s Spe­cial Forces and the Coast Guard’s Spe­cial Naval Unit (SNU) ad­vanced about three miles in­to Matelot, east of San­ta Cruz Road, where they found a “siz­able plan­ta­tion” of mar­i­jua­na plants.

The of­fi­cers saw two men in the field, and one of them point­ed a gun at them. 

Po­lice said they were pre­pared to shoot, but the sus­pects ran off. 

Of­fi­cers caught one of the men hid­ing be­hind a tree, while the oth­er es­caped.

The ar­rest­ed sus­pect had $5,195. 

At the camp, of­fi­cers count­ed 1,300 mar­i­jua­na plants with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $800,000.

At a near­by camp, po­lice al­so found 32 rounds of .380 am­mu­ni­tion, 19 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion, five 12-gauge car­tridges, two guns and firearm com­po­nents.

They al­so seized a cro­cus bag con­tain­ing dried mar­i­jua­na val­ued at $45,760.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing by of­fi­cers of the SIU.