Hilo vice officers ripped up 12,418 marijuana plants ranging from seedlings to 10 feet tall in a five-day eradication effort that ended Friday 23 August 2002.[1] The plants grew on 675 separate plots in the Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua districts of East Hawaii.[1][2][3] The Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin both confirmed the 12,418-plant, 675-plot totals the next day.[2][3]
12,418 marijuana plants uprooted in five-day Big Island eradication
Big Island police uprooted 12,418 marijuana plants from 675 separate plots in Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua in a five-day eradication effort ending 23 August 2002. Two newspapers confirmed the police totals the next day.
🇺🇸 Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua districts, Hawaii Island (East Hawaii) · Hawaii, United States
- Plants destroyed
- 12,418
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis, Living plants
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Plants destroyed
- 12,418
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis; Living plants (12,418 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
Sources
- Hawaiʻi Police Departmenthawaiipolice.comArchived copyMarijuana eradication nets 12, 418 plants 08-23-02
- The Honolulu Advertiserthe.honoluluadvertiser.comArchived copy12,418 marijuana plants uprooted
- Honolulu Star-Bulletinarchives.starbulletin.comArchived copyBig Isle sweep nets 12,418 pakalolo plants
Open questions the AI reported
- The opened sources report no arrests from this sweep.
- No weight in kilograms or street value was published for the plants destroyed.
- No photograph of this sweep with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
