Man charged over 170 marijuana plants uprooted at Togoni Settlement, Kadavu
A young man was charged with unlawful cultivation after Fiji police uprooted more than 170 marijuana plants at Togoni Settlement, Naceva, in Kadavu in August 2020. Three days after his court appearance the 23-year-old was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.
Fiji police charged a young man over marijuana cultivation in Kadavu in August
2020 after a raid uprooted plants at a Togoni Settlement farm.[1]The police
special operations team uprooted more than 170 marijuana plants at Togoni
Settlement, Naceva, in the week before he was brought to court.[1]He was
charged with one count of unlawful cultivation of illicit drugs and was due to
be produced at the Island Court sitting in Vunisea that day.[1]
Police placed the uprooting at Togoni Settlement last in a run of Kadavu raids
that uprooted more than 6,700 plants from five farms in the days before 23
August 2020.[2]
Three days after his court appearance, a 23-year-old man from Qauia, Lami was
sentenced to three years and six months in prison for cultivating marijuana in
Kadavu after the same Togoni Settlement raid.[3]fijivillage reported that he
was arrested following the raid at Togoni Settlement, Naceva, where the special
operations team uprooted more than 170 marijuana plants.[3]He faced one count
of unlawful cultivation of marijuana in that case.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The raid is dated only to the week before the 24 August 2020 charge; 18 August 2020 is an estimate from "last week" and the later report's description of it as the last of the raids before 23 August.
The Fiji Times puts the uprooted count at "more than 170" and the 23 August police round-up at "close to 200" for the same Togoni Settlement raid; the report uses the lower figure from the two reports on the charge and sentence.
The man's name is published by fijivillage but is left out of the report because the tracker does not record personal identifiers, so the link between the man charged on 24 August and the 23-year-old sentenced on 26 August rests on the shared Togoni Settlement raid and plant count.
The Fiji Times gives his home area as Nasaibitu, Wainibuka, Tailevu, while fijivillage gives Qauia, Lami and Banikea, Lekutu, Bua; the report does not reconcile these addresses.
The published sources do not say how he pleaded, which court imposed the sentence, or whether an appeal followed.
No weight, area, value, or number of farms involved was published for the 170 plants, and no separate figure for other arrests in the raid was given.
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