A 39-year-old woman employed as a cleaner at the THA’s Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities’ Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) is expected to appear in the Scarborough Magistrates’ Court today charged with possession of more than $28 million in drugs. The woman was held on Friday by officers of the Criminal Gang and Intelligence Unit and the Tobago Divisional Task Force who, acting on a tip-off, went to a house at Adventure Trace, Plymouth, and conducted a search.
The officers reportedly found two crocus bags and one duffle bag containing 16 packets of cocaine weighing 18 kilograms and 50 packets of marijuana weighing 31 kilograms in one of the bedrooms. The woman was arrested in connection with the find, which has been described as the largest seizure on the island to date.
Officers said yesterday that contrary to reports that the drugs were worth $7.2 million, the street value of the cocaine was $25 million while the marijuana was $3 million. A source close to the investigation said in an interview that the cocaine was the “high grade, pure Columbian cocaine” while the marijuana is also of a high grade rarely seen in this country.
Tobago police are continuing investigations.