11,115 cannabis plants destroyed in Gros-Islet and Dennery raids
Gros-Islet police and the Drug Unit of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force uprooted and destroyed 11,115 fully grown cannabis plants and 3,100 seedlings in Beausejour and Belle Vue, Dennery, on 5 March 2015. No one was arrested after either eradication exercise.
🇱🇨 Beausejour, Gros-Islet, and Belle Vue, Dennery, Saint Lucia
Gros-Islet police carried out an eradication exercise in the Beausejour area at
about 3:30 a.m. on Thursday 5 March 2015.[1]In that Beausejour exercise
officers uprooted and destroyed 1,333 fully grown cannabis plants and 100
seedlings.[1]Also on Thursday 5 March 2015 the Drug Unit of the Royal Saint
Lucia Police Force carried out an eradication exercise in the Belle Vue area in
Dennery.[1]
That Dennery exercise uprooted and destroyed 6,682 fully grown cannabis plants
and 3,000 seedlings.[1]No one was arrested in either eradication exercise.[1]
Commissioner of Police Vernon Francois said, in a statement earlier that year,
that cannabis remains an illegal substance on Saint Lucia’s law books.[1]Francois said the island would not be a safe haven for drug trafficking and that
police efforts would not ease.[1]The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force said it
had carried out a number of operations against cannabis cultivation.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The two exercises were at different places, Beausejour near Gros-Islet and Belle Vue in Dennery; the map point marks Gros-Islet district and does not cover the Dennery site.
The report gives no area cleared, no weight of harvested cannabis and no street value for either exercise.
The 1,333 grown plants and 100 seedlings are attributed to the Beausejour exercise, but the article does not say explicitly whether the 6,682 and 3,000 figures cover only Dennery or all the exercises of the day.
No second source for these exercises was found; the account rests on the single opened STAR report, which carries no named author.
No later follow-up on the sites or their owners was reported in the article.
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Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 1,368Cannabis 10.52 kg
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Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 9,356Cannabis 30.84 kg
Soufriere police uprooted 4,007 fully grown marijuana plants at a plantation in St Phillips, Fond St Jacques, on 23 February 2013. Officers also recovered three bags of compressed marijuana and burned the drugs, and no one was arrested.
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