Police destroy about 1,200 cannabis plants in rural Cândido Mendes
Maranhão Military Police found and destroyed a plantation of about 1,200 cannabis plants at Povoado Leal in rural Cândido Mendes, and seized two shotguns from an abandoned camp. One man fled the site, nobody was arrested, and police said investigations continued.
🇧🇷 Povoado Leal, rural Cândido Mendes, Maranhão · Brazil
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Arrested
0
Plants destroyed
1,200
Agencies
Comando de Operações de Sobrevivência em Área Rural (Cosar), 31º Batalhão da Polícia Militar
Maranhão Military Police officers found and destroyed a plantation of about
1,200 cannabis plants in Povoado Leal, in the rural zone of Cândido Mendes, in
the interior of Maranhão.[1]The area was located after the intelligence
service received information about drug cultivation in the region, according to
the Military Police.[1]
During the operation officers found a hut used as shelter, and a man there was
ordered to stop but fled into vegetation and was not found.[1]At the camp the
soldiers found hammocks, clothes, personal utensils and equipment used in the
plot, and they seized two shotguns.[1]
The roughly 1,200 cannabis plants were pulled up and destroyed, the camp was
dismantled, and nobody had been arrested as of publication.[1]The operation
was carried out by the Rural Area Survival Operations Command (Cosar) together
with the 31st Military Police Battalion, and police said investigations
continued to find the man who fled, identify those involved in the cultivation
and establish where the drug was to go.[1]
Imirante reported that the operation was carried out on Friday 11 September,
with Cosar and the 31st Battalion still searching for the other people involved
in the plantation.[2]
Imirante reported that the two seized shotguns, hammocks, clothes and
cultivation support equipment were collected and presented to the competent
authorities.[2]
Photos and video
Military Police handout image published with the report on the Cândido Mendes eradication. Photo: Divulgação/PMMAPhoto details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
0
Plants destroyed
1,200
Agencies
Comando de Operações de Sobrevivência em Área Rural (Cosar); 31º Batalhão da Polícia Militar
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (1,200 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Field
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Force
No force reported
Region
Maranhão
Sources
g1g1.globo.comPTOperação policial erradica plantação com cerca de 1,2 mil pés de maconha em Cândido Mendes, no MA
Imiranteimirante.comPTPlantação com cerca de 1,2 mil pés de maconha é destruída pela polícia em Cândido Mendes
Open questions the AI reported
The only plant count is the Military Police's approximate figure of about 1,200; no exact count, weight of dried cannabis, cultivated area or drug value was reported.
No one was arrested; the man at the camp fled and police said they were still trying to find him and identify those behind the plantation.
The g1 article gives no separate day for the raid beyond its 11 September 2026 publication; the Imirante account, also published on 11 September, dates the operation to that Friday.
The exact location of Povoado Leal was not published, so the coordinates of the Cândido Mendes town centre are used with district precision.
Imirante attributes its text to g1 and adds no independent detail beyond the date and the fate of the seized items, so the two accounts are not fully independent.
One social-media post found in searches dates the raid to Thursday 10 September, but that post could not be opened and is not used.
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
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