7,755 cannabis plants destroyed in Keng Raing Valley, Kampong Speu
On 14 February 2025 Oral district military police and Kampong Speu provincial military police raided three one-hectare farms in Keng Raing Valley, burning 7,755 marijuana plants. Officers are searching for the cultivators; no one was arrested during the operation.
Military police burned 7,755 marijuana plants on 14 February 2025 in the Keng Raing Valley at
Pooswek village, Rasmey Samaki commune, Oral district, Kampong Speu province.[1]
At 7:36 a.m. seven Oral district military police under district commander Lieutenant General Som
Puttara worked with eight officers from the provincial military police crime suppression department
led by director Nol Dara.[1]They found three farms totalling about one hectare and destroyed
the plants by fire.[1][2]
Police are searching for whoever planted the crop; neither outlet reports an arrest at the
scene.[1][2]A Cambodia Expats Online summary of the same operation describes three plots with
3,075, 3,420 and 1,260 plants respectively.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cambodia Expats Online dated the raid 18 February and gave per-plot plant counts (3,075, 3,420 and 1,260); Khmer Times places it on 14 February without those row figures.
Khmer Times names district commander Som Puttara and provincial investigation director Nol Dara; the forum post does not.
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Police destroyed thousands of marijuana seedlings spread across eight sites covering about 2,000 square metres on Toteung mountain in Takeo's Kiri Vong district, seizing six irrigation water tanks. No growers were arrested after they fled before police arrived, continuing a cycle of replanting and eradication reported since 2019.
Police in Mondulkiri province destroyed more than a hectare of marijuana in Sen Monorom City on 4 April 2021 and seized and destroyed about 50,000 plants weighing nearly 400 kilogrammes. The plantation owner fled before officers arrived and faces a search and up to five years in prison if convicted.
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