Authorities in the Northern Division have conducted a series of anti-crime operations resulting in the destruction of cannabis cultivation and one arrest.
Po-lice of-fi-cers at-tached to the North-ern Di-vi-sion de-stroyed 65 cannabis trees, seized cannabis and ar-rest-ed one man dur-ing an-ti-crime ex-er-cis-es con-duct-ed in Mal-oney and St Joseph on Sun-day.. Ac-cord-ing to a state-ment, of-fi-cers at-tached to the Mal-oney Po-lice Sta-tion car-ried out an in-tel-li-gence-led ex-er-cise be-tween 4 pm and 7 pm in the Mal-oney dis-trict.. Po-lice said of-fi-cers act-ed on in-for-ma-tion and went to a forest-ed area be-hind Brit-ten Boule-vard, Mal-oney, where they dis-cov-ered and de-stroyed
65 cannabis trees.. The ex-er-cise was co-or-di-nat-ed by Supt Mc Ken-zie, ASP Bale-wa, ASP Morales and In-sp Smith and su-per-vised by W/Sgt Ra-mai and Cpl Grif-fith.. PC Lawrence, PC Phillip and oth-er of-fi-cers at-tached to the Mal-oney Po-lice Sta-tion al-so par-tic-i-pat-ed in the op-er-a-tion.. In a sep-a-rate ex-er-cise, of-fi-cers at-tached to the St Joseph Po-lice Sta-tion con-duct-ed an an-ti-crime op-er-a-tion be-tween 11.30 am and 1.30 pm in the St Joseph dis-trict.. Po-lice said of-fi-cers act-ed
on in-for-ma-tion re-ceived and went to Rap-sy Street, Curepe, where checks were con-duct-ed in the area.. Dur-ing the ex-er-cise, of-fi-cers dis-cov-ered a rec-tan-gu-lar block of cannabis wrapped in clear plas-tic and con-cealed in-side a drain.. Po-lice said the cannabis weighed 820 grammes.. In-ves-ti-ga-tions are con-tin-u-ing.. Of-fi-cers al-so re-spond-ed to re-ports con-cern-ing a Span-ish-speak-ing male sus-pect who was al-leged-ly burst-ing res-i-dents’ garbage bags in the Curepe dis-trict.. Ac-cord-ing to the re-lease, of-fi-cers ob-served a man fit-ting
the de-scrip-tion along the Pri-or-i-ty Bus Route near the Curepe Bridge.. The sus-pect was ar-rest-ed and tak-en in-to cus-tody pend-ing en-quiries.. Po-lice said the ex-er-cis-es formed part of on-go-ing an-ti-crime op-er-a-tions in the North-ern Di-vi-sion aimed at tar-get-ing il-le-gal ac-tiv-i-ties and re-spond-ing to re-ports from mem-bers of the pub-lic.
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