3,130 cannabis plants burned in Betânia, Pernambuco, during Operação Polígono IV
Military and Federal Police officers uprooted and burned a cannabis plantation of 3,130 plants in a 416-hole plot at Sítio Angico, in the rural zone of Betânia in Pernambuco's Sertão, in an operation named Polígono IV. The officers also burned 5 kg of cannabis ready for consumption, keeping a sample for the Federal Police station in Salgueiro, and reported no arrests.
🇧🇷 Sítio Angico, zona rural de Betânia, Sertão de Pernambuco · Brazil
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Batalhão Especializado de Policiamento do Interior (BEPI), Polícia Federal
Military Police and Federal Police officers destroyed and burned a cannabis
plantation in the rural zone of Betânia, in Pernambuco’s Sertão, on Thursday 17
August 2023, in an operation the police named Operação Polígono IV.[1]The
plantation was at Sítio Angico, which officers reached after pushing through the
caatinga, the dry scrubland of the semi-arid north-east.[2]
They found a cultivated plot with 416 planting holes holding 3,130 cannabis
plants.[1]The officers also found 5 kg of the drug ready for consumption, all
of which was burned at the site except a small sample.[2]
The operation was carried out by the Interior Policing Specialised Battalion,
known by its Portuguese initials BEPI, together with the Federal Police.[3]The Military Police said the operation was one of a series seeking cannabis
plantations in the Pernambuco Sertão, with Angico its target this time.[1]The
police accounts name no one arrested and no charge or court step in the case.[2]
Photos and video
Police handout photo published with the G1 report and captioned 'Maconha foi incinerada na zona rural de Betânia' (the cannabis was burned in rural Betânia). Photo: Divulgação/Polícia MilitarPhoto details
No arrests, charges or court steps were reported, and the police statement names no suspects.
The police give no value estimate for the plants or the 5 kg, and no area figure for the plot.
The 5 kg is described only as the drug ready for consumption; the source does not say whether it was dried cannabis from the plot or held elsewhere in the area.
The 416 planting holes are not converted into an area, since no field size was published.
The Military Police statement, the G1 article and the Folha de Pernambuco article reproduce the same police account, so they are not independent reporting of the raid.
The reports do not say which localities earlier Polígono operations covered or how many preceded this one.
Only a low-resolution copy of the police handout photo could be recovered, and its caption does not state exactly which part of the plantation it shows.
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Left out, as its quotation was not found in Polícia Militar de Pernambuco: The Military Police said the sample was presented at the Federal Police station in Salgueiro so the formal procedures could be recorded.
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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
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