Operation Greenfield destroys 14,900 cannabis plants in Region Ten
Guyana's Joint Services destroyed ten cannabis fields holding about 14,900 plants at Coomacka, New England and Wisroc in Region Ten, finding 684 kg of dried marijuana and arresting one man with 8 kg near a field.
🇬🇾 Coomacka, New England and Wisroc, Region Ten · Guyana
Guyana’s Joint Services unearthed and destroyed ten fields of cannabis sativa
holding about 14,900 plants as high as 12 feet at Coomacka, New England and
Wisroc in Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice) over one weekend.[1]The
operation, codenamed Greenfield, combined air, river and ground assets, with one
of the recently acquired Bell 206 helicopters flying reconnaissance and
vectoring tasks.[1]
The Joint Services put the estimated weight of the destroyed plants at 3,305
kg.[1]Officers worked across a seven-acre area, where they also found 684 kg
of dried marijuana and 14 nurseries holding 5,550 seedlings, and destroyed
eleven camps.[1]
One man was arrested, found in a house with 8 kg of marijuana near one of the
fields, and equipment was seized.[1]River assets ferried the forces to the
sites while ground forces located and destroyed the fields and executed the
arrest.[1]
Case data
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Police spent over seventeen hours destroying seven cannabis cultivations, camps and drying sheds on savannahs at Wiruni and Sandhills, valued at over GY$165 million. No one was arrested; investigations continue.
Plants destroyed 310,500Area 11.3 haCannabis 199.6 kg
In a 12-hour exercise at Wiruni on the Upper Berbice River on 11 October 2026, Guyana Police destroyed four cannabis cultivations of about seven acres holding roughly 37,000 plants, plus a makeshift camp with about 40 pounds of dried cannabis, worth G$26,832,112 combined. No arrests were made.
Guyana police said they burned about 700 plants, 100 pounds of dried cannabis and a makeshift camp at Ebini on 12 September 2026; no arrests were made. Police valued the destroyed narcotics at GY$41,060,440.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 700Area 0.4 haCannabis 45.36 kg
Police spent eleven hours destroying two cannabis farms covering eight acres at Yaruni Bend in the Upper Demerara River, along with two camps and 10 pounds of dried cannabis. No arrests were made.
