Police exercises in the Central Division resulted in the destruction of an estimated $20 million in marijuana on Wednesday.

The exercise was conducted between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm by officers of the Central Division Task Force, under the supervision of Sgt Persad, with assistance from Cpl Bassant and PC Kumar, among several others.

The lawmen, acting on information received, trekked over seven miles into a forested area near Flannagin Town.

The officers came across a camp and eight fields of marijuana.

LoopTT was told that an estimated 20,000 fully grown marijuana trees, as well as 7,000 seedlings were found. Records were made by the officers, following which; they proceeded to destroy the drugs observed in the eight fields.

No arrests were made, however, officers are hopeful to pursue several leads which would change this in the near future.

More on this as it becomes available.

Editor's note: The value of the seizure was initially reported as $2.8 million, however, after additional information was received, the value was revised to $20 million.