Fiji police uproot 31,000 marijuana plants in Kadavu's Ono district
Fiji's Operation Sasamaki seized more than 31,000 marijuana plants from farms in the tikina of Ono on Kadavu island in the week before 23 March 2025. Police were pursuing leads to identify the farm owners, with further seizures and arrests from other farms.
The Fiji Police Force uprooted more than 31,000 marijuana plants from farms in
the tikina of Ono on Kadavu island in the week before 23 March 2025, as part of
Operation Sasamaki.[1][2][3]
Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu said investigators were pursuing leads to
identify the owners of the farms.[1][2][3]He said the Kadavu-based team’s
momentum had already produced seizures from a number of other farms together
with arrests of suspects.[1][3]
Tudravu praised the morale of the officers on the operation and called for
community support, saying police would persist with the campaign for the sake
of future generations.[1]
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The articles give publication dates of 23 March 2025 and say the seizure happened in the past week or earlier that week; the exact operation date is not stated.
No farm owners had been identified when the articles were published; follow-up arrests were reported without names or charges.
The same coverage mentions a related raid in the tikina of Yale where a 19-year-old suspect was held over about 4,000 plants, a separate event left out here.
More than 8,000 plants believed to be marijuana were uprooted from two farms in the Lea farming area of Cakaudrove. The joint Northern Division Taskforce, supported by Republic of Fiji Military Forces officers, found the farms this week while police separately seized suspected methamphetamine and cash in Laucala Beach.
Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
Northern Division police uprooted 2,371 suspected marijuana plants from two farms at Nanuca, Savusavu, on 19 October 2026. A 38-year-old farmer from Drekeniwai Village was arrested over the alleged cultivation.
Fiji Police uprooted more than 11,000 plants believed to be marijuana from a farming area in Nasuva, Cakaudrove, on 2 October 2026. The farm's owner has not been identified and police were still trying to locate them a week later; the plants were seized for analysis.
