Trinidad and Tobago police arrested one suspect and seized almost half 1,000,000 Trinidad and Tobago {dollars} price of cocaine throughout an anti-crime operation at Piarco Worldwide Airport over the weekend.
In a press release issued Monday, regulation enforcement officers mentioned the cocaine—valued at TT$473,932 (roughly US$75,000)—was found hid inside a automobile on the airport compound throughout a joint operation by officers from the Northern and North Central Divisions.
“The search of a automobile resulted within the officers discovering one bag containing a amount of cocaine with an estimated avenue worth of TT$473,932.80,” the assertion learn. “One suspect was arrested in reference to the discover.”
The anti-crime sweep prolonged to the encompassing areas of the airport, the place a number of different automobiles and people had been searched.
The operation shaped a part of a wider set of weekend crackdowns throughout a number of divisions that led to the invention of a number of unlawful weapons. Among the many objects seized was an AR-15 assault rifle discovered loaded with {a magazine} of 14 rounds of 5.56 ammunition. That weapon was recovered in a bushy space in Freeport, west central Trinidad, after officers acted on intelligence.
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In separate searches, police recovered one other pistol with one spherical of ammunition in Diego Martin, and a 3rd firearm together with 5 rounds of ammunition and a stash of hashish hidden in an deserted construction in Santa Cruz, on the outskirts of Port of Spain.
Police say investigations into all seizures are ongoing as authorities ramp up their efforts to crack down on unlawful medication and firearms in high-traffic zones, together with the nation’s important worldwide airport.
