Police destroy 13,840 cannabis plants on two farms at Ebini Backdam
Police destroyed 8,840 cannabis plants on one two-acre farm and 5,000 on a second farm nearby at Ebini Backdam on 5 March 2024, plus a makeshift camp. No one was arrested; police valued the destroyed plants at about GY$3.75 million.
Police in Regional Division 10 held a narcoticseradication exercise at Ebini
Backdam along the Berbice River on Tuesday 5 March 2024.[1][2]On the first
farm, covering about two acres, officers counted 130 beds with 68 plants each,
or 8,840 plants between two and six feet tall, and destroyed them.[1][2]Police put the weight of those plants at 19,448 kg and their street value at
about GY$2.9 million.[1][2]
About 200 metres away, officers found a second farm of about two acres holding
some 5,000 plants between one and four feet tall.[1][2]They destroyed those
plants as well, putting their weight at 5,500 kg and their street value at
about GY$847,000.[1][2]Officers also found a makeshift camp with two
hammocks, a mattress, kitchen utensils and groceries, and destroyed it.[1][2]No one was arrested.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
No arrests were made and no suspects were named; no prosecution outcome was reported.
The NEWSFeed GY page republishes the iNews Guyana account, so the facts rest on the police statement as reported, with no independent weighing described.
Photographs published with the reports appear to show the farm, the burning plants and the camp, but they could not be verified as depicting this operation.
The map point marks the Ebini settlement area, not the exact farm sites.
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Plants destroyed 310,500Area 11.3 haCannabis 199.6 kg
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