Of­fi­cers at­tached to the High­way Pa­trol Unit seized over $1.7 mil­lion worth of cannabis dur­ing what they thought was a rou­tine traf­fic ex­er­cise in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, while pa­trolling along the South­bound lane of the Uri­ah But­ler High­way, Ch­agua­nas, of­fi­cers stopped a Volk­swa­gen Pas­sat ve­hi­cle to check the ve­hi­cle’s com­pli­ance with tint reg­u­la­tions. The be­hav­iour of the dri­ver and pas­sen­gers raised of­fi­cers’ sus­pi­cion, prompt­ing them to search the ve­hi­cle.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers found 20 pack­ets of com­pressed cannabis with a to­tal weight of 11.76 kilo­grams val­ued at ap­prox­i­mate­ly $1,760,060.

The sus­pects were im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed and are cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing po­lice with on­go­ing in­quiries.