Police destroyed two cannabis fields with about 4,000 plants, two nurseries holding some 20,000 seedlings and two camps at Moblissa Backdam over the weekend of 28-29 May 2011, arresting two people.
🇬🇾 Moblissa Backdam, Linden-Soesdyke Highway, Guyana
Police ranks conducted a narcotics eradication operation at Moblissa Backdam on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway over the weekend of 28-29 May 2011 and found two fields with about 4,000 cannabis plants ranging between two and five feet in height.[1] The site also held two nurseries containing approximately 20,000 seedlings and two tarpaulin camps.[1]
The plants, seedlings and camps were destroyed.[1] Two people were arrested and were in police custody assisting with the investigations.[1]
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