ONE MAN has been arrested and charged with four drug offences after police conducted a cannabis eradication programme today.
Twenty-one-year-old Taweeni Emmanuel Marques of Fusilier Road, Newbury, St George, was arrested and charged with cultivation, trafficking, possession and possession with intent.
He is scheduled to appear in the District F Magistrate Court today.
Members of Police Marine Unit and the Drug Squad, with support from the Barbados Defence Force, conducted the operation in the area of Cottage, St George. Police say 173 cannabis plants were found growing in a bushy area.
Overall, Police seized nearly 1 400 plants today.
A total of 1 215 cannabis plants were seized – the tallest 13 feet in height – when the Drug Squad and BDF conducted a similar operation in the St John communities of Cherry Grove, Wakefield, Easy Hall and Golden Ridge, as well as Todds, St George and Blackmans, St Joseph.
These plants were concealed in cane fields and no arrests were made. (PR/SAT)
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