476 marijuana plants uprooted from two Kadavu farms
Fiji police uprooted 476 plants believed to be marijuana from two separate farms on Kadavu over two days in early February 2019. Police said 325 plants came from a farm at Nacomoto Village and 151 from a farm near Namajiu Village, and no arrests of the farm owners had been made.
Fiji police uprooted 476 plants believed to be marijuana from separate farms on
Kadavu over the two days before 7 February 2019.[1]Police said 325 of the
plants came from a farm at Nacomoto Village.[1]The other 151 plants were
uprooted from a farm near Namajiu Village.[1]
The farms’ owners had not been arrested when police issued the report.[1]
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Police issued the report on 7 February 2019 and said the uprooting happened in the past two days; the exact dates of each raid are not given, so the publication date stands in for the incident date.
No weight, area, value or plant height was published, and the plants are described only as believed to be marijuana.
No arrests, charges or court outcome are reported, and the source does not say what happened to the uprooted plants.
Only one source could be opened; a second account, such as a Fiji Police Force release, was not found.
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Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
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