Civil Police investigators eradicated a cannabis plantation of more than 1,000 plants on a rural property in Ibicoara, in Bahia’s Chapada Diamantina, on the morning of Monday 14 March 2016.[1] The officers came from the 20th Regional Interior Police Coordinating Office (Coorpin) in Brumado, a town about 170 kilometres from Ibicoara, and found the plantation while investigating drug trafficking in the area.[1] Sudoeste Bahia placed the plantation at a spot known as Capão da Volta, in the municipality’s rural zone.[2]

The owner of the rural property has already been identified and was to be summoned to give a statement.[1] Bahia.ba reported that 500 cannabis seedlings were taken along with other plants at different stages of growth and precision scales for selling the drug, and that all the material was taken to the Ibicoara police station and sent for forensic examination.[3] Part of the cannabis was preserved and sent for examination at the Technical Police Department (DPT) in Brumado.[1] Alex Wendel Santos, the delegate in charge of Brumado, said he would ask a court to confiscate the property where the drug was being grown.[1]

No one was arrested: the account names no detainee and describes only an owner who was to be questioned.[4] Metropole reported the operation on 15 March, a day after the raid, and also gave the Coorpin de Brumado as the unit that acted.[4] The same g1 page links to an earlier, separate eradication of more than 800 cannabis plants in rural Ibicoara, published on 26 February 2016.[1]