Agents of the Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones, the investigative arm of the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office, destroyed three marijuana plantations near the community of La Onza in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo.[1] The agents said they were investigating a homicide when they came across the plantations.[1]

The largest plantation covered 3,500 square metres and held 21,000 plants about 1.80 metres tall.[1] A second plantation of 2,800 square metres held 11,200 plants about 70 centimetres tall.[1] A third of 2,100 square metres held 6,300 plants about 1.50 metres tall.[1] The three plots together covered 8,400 square metres and held 38,500 plants.[1] Inside the plantations the agents found about 200 plants drying in the open, which the prosecutor counted as roughly 250 kilograms.[1]

The agents burned the plants after photographing them and recording their coordinates, and reported the find to the federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, which took over the investigation.[1] El Diario de Juárez reported only two plantations at the same site, of 2,800 and 2,100 square metres with 11,200 and 6,300 plants, and gave the headline total as 17,700 plants.[2] The newspaper’s account, like the prosecutor’s, reports no arrests in the operation.[2]