Police destroyed a three-acre cannabis field with about 3,000 plants at La Harmonie Backdam on the Demerara River on 4 September 2014. No one was arrested.
🇬🇾 La Harmonie Backdam, Demerara River, Guyana
Police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation at the La Harmonie Backdam on the Demerara River on 4 September 2014 and found a field of cannabis sativa under cultivation.[1] The field was about three acres in size, some 1.21 hectares, with about 3,000 plants ranging in height from four to seven feet.[1]
The plants were destroyed.[1]
No one was arrested during the operation, and the account names no suspects behind the field.[1]
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