Po­lice yes­ter­day ar­rest­ed four men and foiled a drug deal in­volv­ing the sale of some 138 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, around 5 am yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) and ca­nine Tino be­gan Op­er­a­tion Red Fox.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, the of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly con­duct­ed sur­veil­lance on a Sil­ver Nis­san Cube in Moru­ga.

Around 7.15 am, the same Nis­san Cube was in­ter­cept­ed along the north­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way, close to the Ca­roni Bridge. In the trunk, the of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found 138 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na.

The ve­hi­cle’s lone oc­cu­pant, a man from Lance Mi­tan Road, Moru­ga, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion, along with the drugs.

The of­fi­cers then got more in­for­ma­tion, lead­ing them to Grand Bazaar, Val­sayn, where they ar­rest­ed three men who were al­leged­ly wait­ing to col­lect the drugs.

A video of in­ci­dent, which showed heav­i­ly armed of­fi­cers lead­ing a man out of Xtra Foods Su­per­mar­ket in Grand Bazaar, was wide­ly shared on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day. One of the men lives at La Ruf­fin, Moru­ga and was dri­ving a Sil­ver Nis­san AD wag­on. The sec­ond lives at Rox­bor­ough Ex­ten­sion, Diego Mar­tin and drove a white Nis­san Navar­ra. The third was from Topaz Av­enue, Diego Mar­tin.

All three sus­pects were tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion and their ve­hi­cles were seized.

Po­lice said charges were ex­pect­ed to be laid against all four and they will ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly be­fore a mag­is­trate this week.