PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Agents with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are said to have assisted Trinidad and Tobago police in their investigations that led to the arrest of a drug trafficker on Tuesday.
The U.S. Embassy said that the DEA agents here assisted in arresting Shurlan Guppy, charged with trafficking heroin and cocaine valued at one million U.S. dollars.
“He is charged in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and will be extradited to Pennsylvania to face charges. During the early morning execution of the arrest warrant, agents found a firearm and one kilogram of cocaine in the suspect’s residence,” the U.S. Embassy said in a statement.
It said that the DEA and the Trinidad and Tobago Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU) have worked for almost 20 years.
“I am proud of the painstaking work the U.S. Embassy’s DEA agents do every single day to help end drug trafficking and to strengthen citizen security for the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” said U.S. Ambassador Candace Bond.
“This arrest, following months of investigation and close collaboration between DEA, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and Trinidad and Tobago’s TOCU, is another sterling example of our close partnership, and yet more evidence that the United States is Trinidad and Tobago’s most reliable friend and partner in the world,” she added.
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said US DEA agents in Philadelphia and the U.S. Embassy started working on this case with local law enforcement officials in 2020, culminating in this significant arrest and extradition order.
“ I am gratified that our excellent cooperation has led to this arrest. We count on our American partners in law enforcement to assist us in making Trinidad and Tobago safer for our communities,” he added.
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