45,000 cannabis plants burned on an island in Abaré, Bahia
Military police destroyed 45,000 cannabis plants on an island near the Ibó district of rural Abaré, in northern Bahia, on 16 March 2026 and found nobody at the site. Part of the crop was taken to the regional police station as evidence and the rest was burned; the Civil Police opened an investigation to find who grew it.
🇧🇷 island near Ibó district, rural Abaré, Bahia · Brazil
Plants destroyed
45,000
Agencies
45ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (45ª CIPM), Polícia Civil da Bahia
Military police destroyed a plantation of 45,000 cannabis plants on Monday 16
March 2026 in Abaré, in northern Bahia.[1]The Military Police said the
cannabis was grown on an island near the district of Ibó, in the rural zone of
the municipality.[1]Nobody was at the site when the officers arrived.[1]
Part of the plantation was taken to the regional police station, where the case
was registered, and the rest of the plants were burned.[1]
The Civil Police will investigate to identify who was responsible for the crop.[1]The photograph published with the report is credited to the 45th
Independent Military Police Company (45ª CIPM), the unit whose patrol area
covers Abaré.[1]
Farol da Bahia published the same account a day later, also crediting the
Military Police and a photo to the PM of Bahia.[2]The Petrolina-based site
Edenevaldo Alves also carried the report with the same figures and the 45ª CIPM
photo credit.[3]
Photos and video
The cannabis plantation destroyed on the island near Ibó, Abaré, in a photograph published with the g1 report. Photo: 45ª CIPMPhoto details
No figure was published for the area of the plantation or the weight of cannabis destroyed, and the plant count is the Military Police's stated figure.
The g1 report does not name the company that carried out the action beyond the photograph's 45ª CIPM credit; other Abaré eradications in March 2026 were attributed to that company, which is based in Curaçá.
The island is not named and its position is not given; the map uses the Abaré municipality area and the precision is recorded as district.
No suspect was named, arrested or charged; the sources say only that the Civil Police would investigate.
The two other outlets reproduce the same Military Police-based account as g1, so they are not independent reporting.
g1's video item at the top of the page is the same report in video form, and no separate direct video address could be confirmed, so no video entry is listed.
The article lists separate Bahia cannabis cases in its 'Leia mais' links; they are other events and are not part of this report.
Bahia military police eradicated a marijuana planting of about 19,000 plants in caatinga near Quipa in rural Juazeiro on 9 November 2026. Officers of the 74th CIPM/Rural destroyed the crop and sent samples to Juazeiro's drugs and narcotics station.
Bahia's Military Police, with the 25th Independent Military Police Company and the Bahia Civil Police, found and burned about 3,000 cannabis plants on a roughly one-hectare plantation in the Olho D'água district of rural Remanso. Officers seized about 17 kg of cannabis ready for use, seeds, scales, a pump, an air rifle, a phone and three motorcycles, and made no arrests.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 3,000Area 1 haCannabis 17 kg
Maranhão Civil Police destroyed about 45,000 cannabis plants in three rural plantations in Turiaçu on 5 November 2026, calling it the largest eradication in the municipality's history. No arrests were reported as investigations continue to identify those behind the crops.
Brazil's Federal Police uprooted about 20,000 cannabis plants and arrested three people on 4 November 2026 on four plots in the rural zone of Paes Landim, southern Piauí. The force estimated the destroyed crop could have produced about four tonnes of cannabis.
