The Federal Police found a plantation of thousands of cannabis plants on a rural property in the municipality of Juazeiro do Piauí, in the north of Piauí, and destroyed it on Monday 1 June 2026.[1] The Federal Police said in a statement that it carried out the eradication of the plantation that Monday, in an operation against drug trafficking.[2] Teams found the cannabis crop on a rural property in the area, together with equipment used for planting, irrigation, processing, preparing and compacting the drug, and destroyed the equipment.[2] The force did not publish an exact count of the plants found, and no weight, area or value was given.[1]

The Federal Police said preliminary surveys indicated the site had been abandoned by those responsible for the illegal crop a few days earlier, which made arrests in the act impossible.[2] No suspect had been arrested or identified up to the last update of the g1 report.[1] The case continues under investigation, with the aim of finding those responsible for setting up, maintaining and financing the plantation.[1]

Ten days earlier, on 18 May, the Federal Police targeted another cannabis plantation in São Francisco de Assis do Piauí, where the site had an improvised greenhouse, solar panels, scales, a press, vacuum-packing equipment and an industrial grinder valued at about 80,000 reais, and eight people were arrested.[1] Piauí Hoje reported the crop as an irrigated cannabis plantation in the rural zone of Juazeiro do Piauí, in the north of the state, and that the police said investigations would continue to identify those involved in the planting and the possible distribution of the drug.[3] Viagora, citing the Federal Police, reported that the site had been abandoned a few days before the officers arrived and that there were no arrests in the act.[4]

Somos Notícia reported the eradication as the second of its kind in Piauí in less than two weeks, and that no suspect had been arrested or identified at that point.[5]