15,600 cannabis plants destroyed in 13-acre Hauraruni Creek raid
Police destroyed a 13-acre cannabis field with about 15,600 plants, eight nurseries holding some 40,000 seedlings, three camps, 20 kg of dried cannabis and 2 kg of seeds at Hauraruni Creek on 11 July 2011. No one was arrested.
🇬🇾 Hauraruni Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, Guyana
Police ranks conducted a narcoticseradication operation at Hauraruni Creek on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway on 11 July 2011.[1]The operation unearthed a field of about thirteen acres under cultivation with approximately 15,600 cannabis plants ranging between three and twelve feet in height.[1]
The site also held eight nurseries containing approximately 40,000 seedlings, three tarpaulin camps, 20 kg of dried cannabis and 2 kg of cannabis seeds.[1]The plants, seedlings, dried cannabis and seeds were destroyed.[1]
No arrests
No one was arrested during the operation, and the account names no suspects behind the field and camps.[1]
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