$4,000 cash and over 200 marijuana rolls seized in Ra raid
Police raided a 50-year-old suspect's home in Drauniivi village in Ra, Fiji, and seized more than 200 rolls of dried leaves in aluminium foil believed to be marijuana and $4,000 in cash. The rolls were allegedly found in a bucket buried underground, and police said investigations were continuing without reporting an arrest or charge.
Police raided the home of a 50-year-old suspect in Drauniivi village in Ra in
the early morning of 8 February 2019.[1]Officers from the Western Division
Taskforce and the K9 Unit, the force’s dog unit, carried out the raid.[1]
Officers seized more than 200 rolls of dried leaves wrapped in aluminium foil
believed to be marijuana.[1]The rolls were allegedly found stashed in a
bucket and buried underground, police spokesperson Ana Naisoro said.[1]Police
also found $4,000 in cash during the raid.[1]Fijivillage reported that over
200 rolls of dried leaves believed to be marijuana and the $4,000 cash were
seized at the home of a 50-year-old man in the village.[2]
Police investigations were continuing, with no charge or court outcome reported.[1]The same Fijivillage report separately described a raid on a farm at
Dakunikoro, Pacific Harbour, where officers seized more than 30 plants believed
to be marijuana, a different event left out of this report.[2]
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Source: The Fiji TimesDried leaves believed to be marijuana seized in the raid at the home of a 50-year-old man in Drauniivi village, Ra. Photo: SuppliedPhoto details
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The article gives no weight for the rolls, only a count of more than 200, with no laboratory confirmation that the material was cannabis.
The 50-year-old suspect was not named; no arrest, charge, detention or court outcome was reported.
The sources do not say how much, if any, of the $4,000 cash police linked to drug proceeds.
The Fiji Times names only the police spokesperson's surname (Naisoro) in this text; the Fijivillage account describes the cash as seized without saying where it was found.
The name of the village differs between accounts (Drauniivi in The Fiji Times, Drauniivi and Draunivi in Fijivillage), which appears to be the same place.
The Fiji Times photograph is captioned only as supplied and Fijivillage credits its photograph to a supplier, so the photographer is unknown; the police Facebook page that carried the same announcement could not be opened.
Fijivillage's article also covers a separate Pacific Harbour plant seizure, which is left out of this report.
The text gives a number of plants ("30 plants") but the figures have no plants_destroyed; check whether it belongs there.
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A joint Fiji Police Force and military operation seized 47,042 marijuana plants from 93 farms in the Northern Division, with 22 people arrested. Policing Minister Ioane Naivalurua announced the totals in a ministerial statement in Parliament on 26 May 2026.
Police in Fiji's Northern Division seized more than 7,000 marijuana plants, some over four metres tall, from a farm at Qaranibali in Vusasivo, Natewa, on 25 March 2026. A drone found the plantation during Operation Sasamaki; the plants were taken for analysis and police said three months later that no arrests had been made.
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