A Maraval man is expected to appear in court after he was charged with drug trafficking and other offences.
On Sunday, police charged Pierre Louis Pantin, 40, for trafficking in cocaine, forgery of a Trinidad and Tobago driver’s permit and uttering a forged T&T driver’s permit.
The charges were laid by acting Cpl Bernard of the Special Investigations Unit.
According to police reports on October 27, 2020, a man went to an international shipping company, where he allegedly shipped a binder containing documents to an address in Canada.
Acting on information, officers from the Special Investigations Unit went to the shipping company located in Port of Spain, where they examined the package and found a quantity of cocaine concealed within the lining of the binder.
The officers conducted enquires which revealed that the name, address and identification documents utilised by the shipper were fake.
After an intelligence-led exercise, under the supervision of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Central Intelligence Bureau, Joseph Chandool, Pantin was arrested as a suspect on October 27, 2020, for the offence of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
Police said the cocaine seized weighed 27.68 grammes, with an estimated street value of $110,720.
