Hilo vice officers ripped up 9,283 marijuana plants ranging from seedlings to eight feet tall in a five-day eradication effort that ended Friday 19 July 2002.[1] The plants grew on 609 separate plots in the Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua districts of East Hawaii.[1] A month later the Star-Bulletin confirmed the seizure of 9,283 plants at 609 locations in East Hawaii.[2]
9,283 marijuana plants ripped up in five-day Big Island sweep
Hilo vice officers ripped up 9,283 marijuana plants from 609 separate plots in Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua in a five-day eradication effort ending 19 July 2002. A month later the Star-Bulletin corroborated the 9,283-plant, 609-location totals.
🇺🇸 Puna, Hilo, North Hilo and Hamakua districts, Hawaii Island (East Hawaii) · Hawaii, United States
- Plants destroyed
- 9,283
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis, Living plants
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Plants destroyed
- 9,283
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis; Living plants (9,283 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
Sources
- Hawaiʻi Police Departmenthawaiipolice.comArchived copyMarijuana eradication sweep nets 9,283 plants 07-19-02
- 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.
