GUARDIAN ME­DIA NEWS­ROOM

Po­lice seized over $1.8 mil­lion worth of cannabis and ar­rest­ed one sus­pect dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Cunu­pia yes­ter­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

A state­ment from the TTPS re­ports that po­lice of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that led them to con­duct sur­veil­lance on a su­per­mar­ket lo­cat­ed at Cereza Cir­cu­lar, Cunu­pia.  The busi­ness was kept un­der sur­veil­lance be­tween 3 pm and 6 pm on Wednes­day (No­vem­ber 20, 2024).

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the of­fi­cers en­tered the es­tab­lish­ment where they en­coun­tered a 37-year-old man.  They then pro­ceed­ed to search the premis­es.

The TTPS state­ment re­ports that while search­ing the rear of the store­room, the of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a trans­par­ent cro­cus bag con­tain­ing mul­ti­ple pack­ets of what ap­peared to be pack­ets of cannabis.

The TTPS says the 33 pack­ets found and seized had a com­bined weight of 17 kilo­grams, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $1,865,699.

The man was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion for pro­cess­ing, along with the il­le­gal nar­cotics.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing

The op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Singh and W/Snr. Supt. May­nard Wil­son, and su­per­vised by W/Sgt. Ra­mai, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Ari­ma Op­er­a­tions/In­tel­li­gence Team.