Police display cocaine seized in Tobago. (TTPS Photo Via CMC)
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Police Thursday said they had arrested two women and seized more than TT$16 million(One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) worth of cocaine at the ANR Robinson International Airport.
They said the seizure and arrest were made on Tuesday as officers of the Special Investigations Unit were conducting routine duties at the airport, paying special attention to passengers scheduled to board a flight destined for Frankfurt, Germany.
The police said that they stopped and interviewed a 27-year-old woman from Darceuil Lane, Arima in East Trinidad, and conducted a search of her luggage, where hidden among items of clothing were six boxes of cake mix. But “upon further examination, the white powdery substance inside the boxes was found to be cocaine.
“Another passenger, a 20-year-old woman from Arima Bypass, Arima, was also interviewed. A search of her luggage revealed five similarly packaged boxes, which likewise contained cocaine.”
The police said that the seized packages weighed 11.757 kg, with an estimated street value of TT$16,388,564.00 and that investigations are continuing.
Meanwhile, the police said that a male suspect is assisting the investigations in Trinidad after they seized marijuana with a street value of TT$4.4 million on Wednesday.
The police said that they had intercepted a vehicle travelling westbound along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway on the outskirts of the capital, Port of Spain, where t a search resulted in the discovery of 40 packages of compressed Colombian “creepy” marijuana, weighing 20.74 kilogrammes.
