Police burn G$2.5 billion cannabis stash and farms at De Veldt
Police and Coast Guard ranks destroyed more than G$2.5 billion worth of cannabis at De Veldt on the Berbice River on 16 August 2024. They burned a stash house holding 1,300 pounds of dried cannabis and three farms holding 89,000 plants, and lodged a rifle and ammunition; no one was arrested.
🇬🇾 De Veldt, Upper Berbice River, Region 10 · Guyana
Police and Coast Guard ranks destroyed more than G$2.5 billion worth of cannabis at De Veldt on the Berbice River on 16 August 2024.[1][2]The eradication exercise ran from 05:00 to 12:30 and was described as one of the biggest narcotics operations in Berbice.[2]
At a suspected stash house, the ranks found 1,300 pounds (about 590 kg) of dried cannabis, 100 pounds of cannabis seeds, 520 twelve-gauge cartridges and a .22 rifle with 19 matching rounds.[1][2]The house, the drugs and the farms were photographed and then destroyed by fire, while the cartridges and the rifle were lodged at the Central Police Station.[1][2]
Officers then found three abandoned farms of about three acres each.[2]One held forty trays of cannabis seedlings about two inches tall, and the other two held 39,000 and 50,000 plants between six and twelve inches tall.[1]Police put the street value of everything destroyed at more than G$2.5 billion and arrested no one in the operation.[1][2]
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One account describes the other two farms as about ten acres each rather than about three acres each as the police account states.
No suspects were identified and no arrests were made during the operation.
Police handout photographs of the stash house and the seized rifle were republished with the reports but could not be verified here, so no photos are included.
The pin is an approximate point on the Upper Berbice River in Region 10; the sources name De Veldt but give no coordinates.
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