1,200 marijuana plants uprooted in Kadavu and Rakiraki raids
Fiji's police drug operations team uprooted more than 1,200 marijuana plants from three farms over a January 2021 weekend, over 1,000 on Kadavu and 200 in Ra, arresting a 25-year-old farmer at Natumua.
🇫🇯 Nacomoto and Natumua, Kadavu, and Nabalabala, Ra · Fiji
Fiji’s police drug operations team uprooted more than 1,200 green plants believed to
be marijuana from three separate farms over a weekend in January 2021.[1][2]On Kadavu,
officers took more than 1,000 plants from farms at Nacomoto and Natumua, arresting a
25-year-old farmer at Natumua, where they also found loose dried leaves.[1][2]The
seized plants ranged from 0.15 to 1.10 metres tall.[1][2]
In a separate raid at Nabalabala in Ra, police uprooted more than 200 plants after
receiving information.[1][2]One farm owner was apprehended while two others were
still to be identified.[1]
Plants in the Ra raid were between 30 centimetres and 2.8 metres tall.[2]Police said the owners of the farms at Nacomoto and Nabalabala were yet to be identified as investigations continued.[2]
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Plants seized in the Kadavu and Rakiraki raids, as pictured in Mai TV's reportPhoto details
The article dates the raids only to the weekend before its 20 January publication, so 17 January is the end of that weekend rather than a stated date.
Only one source could be opened; the matching Fiji Police release would not load, so it could not be checked.
Two of the three farm owners were still to be identified and no charges or court outcome are reported.
This report gives the Kadavu plants as ranging from 0.15 centimetres to 1.10 metres, which appears to be a unit error for 0.15 metres; the existing text follows Mai TV's 0.15 metres.
The Ra raid is placed in Rakiraki, Ra, while the report names the farm at Nabalabala in Ra; the two are the same operation as recorded.
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