The Federal Police in Pernambuco finished Operation Angico II on Thursday 21 August 2014, after eradicating 300,000 cannabis plants in the sertão of Pernambuco.[1] The operation also destroyed 78 plots and 139,000 seedlings, and 1.167 kg of cannabis ready for consumption was taken.[1] The police said the plants would have been enough to produce 100 tonnes of the drug.[1]

The operation began on 11 August and covered Orocó, Cabrobó, Santa Maria da Boa Vista, Belém do São Francisco, Carnaubeira da Penha, Floresta, Betânia, Manari, Glória and Paulo Afonso in Bahia, and Mata Grande in Alagoas.[1] Forty-five federal officers and 15 military police from the air tactical group, the fire brigade and the caatinga operations company took part, using three aircraft.[1] The operation was named Angico II after a native tree of the caatinga, the dry scrubland of the interior northeast.[1] The Federal Police in Pernambuco carried out the operation with support from the Pernambuco social defence secretariat and the Ceará public security secretariat.[1] The Federal Police told local outlets the 60 officers sent included 45 federal and 15 military police personnel, and that the action was meant to leave drug sales points in the Northeast short of supply.[2]

The Federal Police carries out three to four cannabis eradication operations a year, timed to the growing cycle to stop the crop being dried and sold.[1] Estadão Alagoas, which credits the text to an assessoria, reports the same three states, the same dates and the same 300,000 plants, 78 plots, 139,000 seedlings and 1.167 kg, and names Alagoas’s Mata Grande among the municipalities covered.[3] The accounts name no arrested or charged person, and no court outcome is reported.[3]