Police destroy 145,000 cannabis plants and 16 camps at Gateroy
Guyana police destroyed 44 acres of cannabis with about 145,000 plants, sixteen camps and some 8,000 kg of dried marijuana at Gateroy on the Berbice River, making no arrests.
Police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation at Gateroy on the Berbice River and found 44 acres of land under cannabis cultivation, about 17.8 hectares.[1]The fields held approximately 145,000 cannabis sativa plants, ranging in height from one foot to fourteen feet.[1]
Beyond the standing crop, the officers came upon sixteen camps across the site and about 8,000 kilograms of dried marijuana already gathered.[1]Everything the operation uncovered, the plants in the fields, the camps and the dried stock, was found and destroyed.[1]
No arrests
No one was arrested during the operation, and the account names no suspects or cultivators behind the fields and camps.[1]The report itself is dated 4 May 2014 and gives no separate date for the raid.[1]
Case data
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Only the police-blotter account could be recovered; no second outlet's report of this operation was found.
The account gives no coordinates for the Gateroy farms; the map pin reuses the approximate Upper Berbice River point from the later Gaetroy Savannah report.
No suspected cultivators were named and no later outcome was reported.
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