Police burn 12,000 cannabis plants and 2,000 kg of marijuana at Morganson
Police destroyed a five-acre cannabis field with about 12,000 plants and some 2,000 kg of dried marijuana at Morganson on the Upper Berbice River in February 2013. No arrests were made.
Police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation at Morganson on the Upper Berbice River and found a five-acre field under cannabis cultivation, about 2.02 hectares.[1]The field held approximately 12,000 cannabis sativa plants, ranging in height from one foot to twelve feet.[1]
Alongside the standing crop, the officers found about 2,000 kilogrammes of dried marijuana already gathered.[1]The plants and the dried stock were destroyed.[1]
No arrests
No arrest was made during the operation, and the account names no suspects behind the field.[1]
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