A 32-year-old man was arrested during a Southern Division intelligence-led operation targeting drug hotspots.

A 32-year-old Cal-i-for-nia man was ar-rest-ed on Mon-day dur-ing an an-ti-crime ex-er-cise con-duct-ed by of-fi-cers at-tached to the South-ern Di-vi-sion.. Ac-cord-ing to a me-dia re-lease from the Trinidad and To-ba-go Po-lice Ser-vice, the in-tel-li-gence-led op-er-a-tion took place be-tween 1 pm and 8 pm on Mon-day and tar-get-ed sev-er-al known drug hotspots across the South-ern Di-vi-sion.. Po-lice said the ex-er-cise fo-cused on ar-eas in La Ro-maine, Mara-bel-la, Clax-ton Bay and San Fer-nan-do.. Dur-ing the op-er-a-tion, of-fi-cers

ar-rest-ed the 32-year-old sus-pect of Sev-enth Street, Cal-i-for-nia, for the al-leged of-fence of pos-ses-sion of co-caine for the pur-pose of traf-fick-ing.. In-ves-ti-ga-tors said 68 grammes of co-caine were al-leged-ly found in the man’s pos-ses-sion dur-ing the ex-er-cise.. Po-lice al-so car-ried out a se-ries of search-es and road checks in sev-er-al com-mu-ni-ties through-out the di-vi-sion.. Ar-eas searched in-clud-ed Ethel Street, Pem-ber-ton Street, Turn-ing Point, Pond Street, Bayshore, the Train Line and Sixth Street in Mara-bel-la.. Of-fi-cers

al-so con-duct-ed ex-er-cis-es along High Street and Lord Street in Clax-ton Bay, as well as the Clax-ton Bay Fish-ing De-pot, Clax-ton Bay Man-grove and Kings Wharf in San Fer-nan-do.. The an-ti-crime op-er-a-tion was co-or-di-nat-ed by se-nior of-fi-cers of the South-ern Di-vi-sion.. Po-lice said the ex-er-cise was com-plet-ed with-out in-ci-dent.. The South-ern Di-vi-sion has con-tin-ued in-tel-li-gence-led op-er-a-tions in re-cent months as of-fi-cers tar-get il-le-gal drugs, firearms and oth-er crim-i-nal ac-tiv-i-ty in com-mu-ni-ties across south Trinidad.. In-ves-ti-ga-tors

have not yet re-leased the iden-ti-ty of the ar-rest-ed man, and en-quiries are con-tin-u-ing in-to the mat-ter.. The sus-pect is ex-pect-ed to be processed in con-nec-tion with the al-leged co-caine traf-fick-ing of-fence as in-ves-ti-ga-tions con-tin-ue.

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