seized over $13 million worth of drugs — $8.4 million in pure cocaine and $4.85 million in marijuana — in the Arima and Barataria areas.

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :: "POLICE made a major dent in the illegal narco trade when in two unrelated drug busts yesterday, they seized over $13 million worth of drugs — $8.4 million in pure cocaine and $4.85 million in marijuana — in the Arima and Barataria areas.

In the first raid, officers from Port-of-Spain CID and Task Force crashed a drug-smuggling air conditioning export business where air condition units were being filled with packets of pure cocaine and shipped to Jamaica.

Five persons, including a Jamaican national, 30; an Arima businessman, 44; a 28-year-old ramp attendant, employed with Caribbean Airlines who lives in El Dorado, an Arima man, 40, and a 25-year-old Arima woman, were arrested."