4,000 cannabis plants destroyed in Campo Formoso, Bahia; 17 kg seized
Military police destroyed a planting of 4,000 cannabis plants at Bebedouro, in Campo Formoso, northern Bahia, on 20 October 2023 and seized 17 kilograms of cannabis and two firearms. The Bahia Public Security Secretariat reported no arrests and said the raid was part of Operação Terra Limpa.
🇧🇷 Bebedouro, Campo Formoso, Bahia · Brazil
Arrested
0
Plants destroyed
4,000
Cannabis
17 kg
Agencies
54ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (CIPM), 75ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (CIPM) +2
Military police destroyed a planting of 4,000 cannabis plants at Bebedouro, a
locality in Campo Formoso in northern Bahia, on Friday 20 October 2023.[1]The
Bahia Public Security Secretariat, the SSP-BA, announced the operation on the
afternoon of Saturday 21 October.[1]
Officers also seized17 kilograms of cannabis and two firearms at the site, and
no one was arrested.[1]According to the SSP-BA, teams from the 54th and 75th
Independent Military Police Companies, known in Brazil as CIPMs, destroyed the
crop, together with Rondesp Norte, a Military Police unit.[1]The planting was
found after investigations by intelligence units, with support from drones.[1]
The commander of the 54th CIPM, major Gil Santana, said the joint work was
essential.[1]The force said the action against organised crime was part of
Operação Terra Limpa, which it said had eradicated 820,000 cannabis plants in
2023.[1]
CN1 Camaçari Notícias republished the g1 account on 22 October 2023 with the
same plant, drug and firearm figures and the same statement that no one was
arrested.[2]
Photos and video
Cannabis plants at the destroyed planting in Bebedouro, Campo Formoso, in the first of three Bahia Public Security Secretariat handout photos published by G1. Photo: Divulgação/SSP-BAPhoto details
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Source: G1The cannabis planting destroyed at Bebedouro, Campo Formoso, in the second Bahia Public Security Secretariat handout photo published by G1. Photo: Divulgação/SSP-BAPhoto details
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
0
Plants destroyed
4,000
Cannabis
17 kg
Agencies
54ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (CIPM); 75ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (CIPM); Rondesp Norte; Secretaria de Segurança Pública da Bahia (SSP-BA)
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Living plants (4,000 plants); Herbal cannabis (17 kg)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Region
Bahia
Sources
G1g1.globo.comPTPlantação de 4 mil pés de maconha é destruída pela polícia no norte da Bahia
The articles give no location more precise than the locality of Bebedouro in Campo Formoso; the map point is the Campo Formoso area used for the other report on this municipality, not a surveyed site.
The police did not say how the 17 kilograms of cannabis related to the 4,000 plants, for example whether it was processed or partly dried, or whether it came from the planting itself.
No field area, crop value or arrest was reported; the SSP-BA and the 54th CIPM did not say who cultivated the crop or whether suspects were identified.
The accounts give no details of the two firearms seized or of any other equipment found.
The statewide figure of 820,000 plants that the source attributes to Operação Terra Limpa in 2023 concerns other operations and is not counted among this event's figures.
CN1 Camaçari Notícias republishes the G1 text verbatim, so it is not independent confirmation, and its publication date is 22 October 2023 rather than 21 October.
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.
