29,000 marijuana plants seized in statewide Green Harvest sweep
Federal, state and county officers seized about 29,000 marijuana plants across Hawaii in the 10-day Operation Green Harvest sweep ending 9 June 2005, plus 36 pounds of processed marijuana, arresting six people. A single Molokai estate held about 10,000 plants, and officials valued the haul at about $29 million.
Federal, state and county officers seized about 29,000 marijuana plants
across Hawaii in a 10-day Operation Green Harvest sweep from 31 May to 9
June 2005.[1][2]Maui County yielded 16,869 plants, the Big Island 10,418,
Oahu 1,503 and Kauai 253.[1]About 10,000 plants stood on a single private
estate on Molokai, within a couple of miles of the island’s airport.[1][2]Officers also recovered 36 pounds of processed marijuana and arrested six
people for drug promotion, most of them on the Big Island.[1]
More than 125 officers took part, drawn from the DEA, the National Park
Service, the state land department, the Hawaii National Guard’s counter-drug
unit and all four county police departments, with seven to 10 helicopters
overhead.[1][2]Some plots lay in parks and forests, but most were on
private land.[1]
The sweep came the week the US Supreme Court upheld federal prosecution of
medical-marijuana patients; the DEA’s Tony Williams said the mission was
unchanged and aimed at cultivators, not the sick.[1]Officials valued the
haul at about $29 million at $1,000 a plant and said cultivation had fallen
far below the 1.9 million plants taken in 1987.[2]
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