Takeo police burn twelve marijuana farms on 2,865 square metres in Kiri Vong
Takeo police burned twelve marijuana farms covering 2,865 square metres in the foothills and valleys of Preah Bat Chonchum commune, Kiri Vong district, on 10 June 2021. The owners fled before officers arrived, and police seized thousands of plants and growing materials.
🇰🇭 Preah Bat Chonchum commune, Kiri Vong district, Takeo · Cambodia
Police in Takeo province’s Kiri Vong district burned twelve marijuana farms on
Thursday 10 June 2021 in the foothills and valleys of Preah Bat Chonchum
commune.[1][2]The farms covered a 2,865-square-metre area, or about 0.29
hectares.[1][2]
Captain Sem Sok, chief of the district’s Anti-Drug Unit, said the owners of
the farms fled before police arrived.[1][2]Police seized thousands of
marijuana plants as well as other related growing materials from the farms,
then destroyed them on site.[1][2]Sok said police were searching for the
owners to bring them to justice.[1][2]
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Police destroy marijuana plants after raids on 12 farms in Takeo's Kiri Vong district on Thursday.Photo details
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On 2 February 2025 Takeo provincial governor Vie Samnang led police, military police and district forces to seven illegal plantations on the Bayang Kor range, cutting and burning 3,365 plants across about 1,890 square metres and removing six water tanks. No arrests were reported.
Takeo gendarmerie cut and burned ten marijuana plantations at Sla village in Ta O commune, Kirivong district, on 23 June 2022. No growers were arrested and investigators said they were pursuing the plantation owners and seed suppliers.
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