Two men ap­peared be­fore a Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for traf­fick­ing af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed dur­ing a mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar drug bust in the Char­lieville on Au­gust 12th.

Sel­wyn Math­ews, 56, of Chin Chin Road, Cunu­pia, and Odane An­der­son, 37, of Vista­bel­la, San Fer­nan­do, were charged on Sep­tem­ber 2nd by Cpl Steven­son, of the North­ern Di­vi­sion’s Gang In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit. The men were re­mand­ed in­to the cus­tody and the mat­ter ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 4th.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 10:30 am on Au­gust 12th of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau, the North­ern Di­vi­sion Gang Unit, the In­ter Agency Task Force (IATF), with sup­port from of­fi­cers of the Cus­toms and Ex­cise De­part­ment and Port Se­cu­ri­ty, in­ter­cept­ed a con­tain­er at Ko­la­hal Road, Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas.

The con­tain­er re­port­ed­ly left the Port of Port of Spain on the same day.

On search­ing the con­tain­er, of­fi­cers found 958 box­es con­tain­ing a com­pressed plant like ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling mar­i­jua­na, which weighed 947.64 kilo­grammes, with a street val­ue of $94,764,000.