Kaua’i police pulled up 4,868 marijuana plants during a three-day Green Harvest operation covering areas throughout the island.[1][2] The Advertiser dates the operation 21 to 23 May 2002.[2] Officers from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Hawaii Army National Guard and the Maui Police Department assisted the Kaua’i officers.[1][2]
4,868 marijuana plants pulled up in three-day Kauai Green Harvest sweep
Kaua'i police pulled up 4,868 marijuana plants in a three-day Green Harvest operation covering areas across the island and ending 23 May 2002, with help from state land officers, the Hawaii Army National Guard and Maui police. Neither paper reports whether anyone was arrested.
🇺🇸 Island-wide, Kauai · Hawaii, United States
- Plants destroyed
- 4,868
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis, Living plants
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Plants destroyed
- 4,868
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis; Living plants (4,868 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
Sources
- Honolulu Star-Bulletinarchives.starbulletin.comArchived copyKauai operation destroys 4,868 marijuana plants
- The Honolulu Advertiserthe.honoluluadvertiser.comArchived copyMarijuana plants uprooted on Kaua'i
Open questions the AI reported
- The Advertiser dates the three-day operation 21 to 23 May while the Star-Bulletin describes it as running Monday to Wednesday, which would be 20 to 22 May; this report uses the Advertiser's end date.
- Neither paper reports whether anyone was arrested during the operation.
- No weight in kilograms or street value was published for the plants destroyed.
- No photograph of this sweep with a recoverable direct image address was found in the opened sources.
