Police burn 7,689 cannabis plants in swamp behind Yarrowkabra
Guyana Police Force ranks burned 7,689 cannabis plants in swamp lands behind Yarrowkabra village on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on 19 March 2021. No one was found at the farm during the five-hour eradication exercise, and police could not mark off the site to establish who owned the land.
🇬🇾 Swamp lands aback Yarrowkabra village, Linden/Soesdyke Highway · Guyana
Guyana Police Force ranks burned 7,689 cannabis plants in swamp lands behind
Yarrowkabra village on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway on 19 March 2021.[1]The
plants were destroyed by fire and some measured between three and five feet in
height.[1]No one was found at the farm, which the police described as large.[1]
The operation took the officers more than five hours to complete.[1]Stabroek
News reported the eradication ran from 7.20 am to 12.30 pm in the swamp lands
about six miles behind the village.[2]Three officers and eight other ranks
carried out the exercise, according to the police account cited by Stabroek
News.[2]
The police said they could not mark off the location to establish land ownership
because the equipment for the marking off was not available.[1]Stabroek News
said no incident was reported because no one was in the area at the time of the
raid.[2]
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Source: Stabroek NewsPhoto published with the report on the Yarrowkabra eradication exercisePhoto details
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Plants destroyed 310,500Area 11.3 haCannabis 199.6 kg
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Arrested 0Plants destroyed 700Area 0.4 haCannabis 45.36 kg
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