More than 31,000 cannabis plants eradicated in Curaca, Bahia
Military police in Operation Terra Limpa eradicated about 31,200 cannabis plants at Ilha Redonda in Curaca, Bahia, on 29 June 2024 and incinerated them except for one sample. No one was found at the site.
🇧🇷 Ilha Redonda, Curaca, Bahia · Brazil
Arrested
0
Plants destroyed
31,200
Agency
45ª Companhia Independente de Polícia Militar (CIPM)
Officers of the 45th Independent Military Police Company (45ª CIPM), acting in
Operation Terra Limpa, eradicated a planting of more than 31,000 cannabis sativa
plants in Curaca in northern Bahia on Saturday 29 June 2024.[1]The Bahia.ba
account identifies the unit by its full name, the 45ª Companhia Independente de
Polícia Militar.[2]A Tarde reports that a plantation of more than 31,000
marijuana plants was incinerated on Saturday 29 in Curaca in northern Bahia.[3]The operation targets cannabis planting and drug trafficking on the islands
of the Sao Francisco River.[1]
Officers found about 26,000 plants at the locality known as Ilha Redonda.[3]Another 5,200 plants were found near the water-catchment source used for the
illegal crop, bringing the total to more than 31,000.[1]All the plants were
incinerated except for one sample collected for registration of the case with
the competent authority.[2]No one was found at the site, and no arrest was
reported.[4]
The 45ª CIPM commander, Major Leonel Ribeiro, said almost 160,000 marijuana
plants had been eradicated that year during Operation Terra Limpa.[1]
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Source: Grupo Lomes de ComunicacaoCannabis planting destroyed in Curaca in the Bahia Military Police handout photo. Photo: Polícia Militar da Bahia/assessoria (DCS)Photo details
No arrest, suspect identification, charge or court outcome was reported; the military police note says no one was found at the site.
The cumulative figures for the year differ by scope: the 45ª CIPM commander cites almost 160,000 plants under Operation Terra Limpa, while the ASCOM/CPR-N note cites about 222,103 plants across northern Bahia in the first semester; neither is counted in this event's figures.
No weight, field area, crop value or laboratory confirmation for the plants was reported.
The accounts give no more precise location than Ilha Redonda in Curaca, so the map point is the Curaca area.
Military police of the 2ª CIPM and the Federal Police eradicated two cannabis plantations totalling about 2,800 plants in a caatinga area of rural Cabrobó, Pernambuco, on 12 November 2026. The plants were pulled up and burned on the spot, and a sample was sent to the Civil Police station in Cabrobó.
Military police eradicated 26,200 cannabis plants in rural Santa Maria da Boa Vista, Pernambuco, on the night of 11 November 2026, during phase 20 of Operation Carcará. One person was arrested in the act; two others fled, and the suspect was taken to the Civil Police station in Cabrobó.
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
