32,000 cannabis plants burned in Morro do Chapéu; two growers arrested
Military police eradicated a cannabis plantation at the Mônica settlement in Morro do Chapéu, in Bahia's Chapada Diamantina, on 6 April 2023, uprooting and burning about 32,000 plants. Two men accused of cultivating and maintaining the crop were arrested in the act and taken to the town's police station.
🇧🇷 Mônica settlement, Morro do Chapéu, Chapada Diamantina, Bahia · Brazil
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Companhia Independente de Policiamento Especializado (Cipe) Caatinga, Rondesp Chapada +1
Teams from Cipe Caatinga, Rondesp Chapada and the 24th Independent Military
Police Company eradicated a cannabis plantation at the Mônica settlement in
Morro do Chapéu, in Bahia’s Chapada Diamantina, on the morning of Thursday 6
April 2023.[1]The plantation stood at the Mônica settlement, a village in the
municipality of Morro do Chapéu.[2]The officers pulled the crop out of the
ground and burned it on the site.[2]
Two men accused of growing and maintaining the crop were arrested at the scene.[2]The two were arrested in the act and taken to the Morro do Chapéu
territorial police station.[1]Police also destroyed an improvised camp the
growers had used at the plantation.[2]
Major Ednaldo Siqueira Vieira, commander of Cipe Caatinga, said officers
gathered intelligence before reaching the plantation.[2]The Bahia Public
Security Secretariat said police found about 320,000 cannabis plants across the
state in the first quarter of 2023.[2]The operation was carried out jointly
by Cipe Caatinga, Rondesp Chapada and the 24th Independent Military Police
Company.[3]
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The cannabis plantation destroyed at the Mônica settlement in Morro do Chapéu, in a Bahia Public Security Secretariat handout photo published by g1. Photo: Divulgação/SSPPhoto details
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Source: g1Cannabis plants from the destroyed plantation in Morro do Chapéu, in a Bahia Public Security Secretariat handout photo published by g1. Photo: Divulgação/SSPPhoto details
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Source: g1The improvised camp used by the growers, destroyed in the same operation in Morro do Chapéu. Photo: Divulgação/SSPPhoto details
No figure for the area of land cleared or the weight of cannabis destroyed was published.
The 32,000 plant count is an approximation given by the police ('cerca de 32 mil'), not a measured total.
The accounts do not say whether charges were filed or what happened to the two men after they were taken to the Morro do Chapéu police station.
The two suspects were not named and no ages were given.
The exact location of the plantation within the Mônica settlement was not published, so the map uses the Morro do Chapéu municipal centre.
The statewide figure of about 320,000 plants found in Bahia in the first quarter of 2023 concerns other police operations and is not counted among this event's figures.
The three accounts reproduce the same Bahia Public Security Secretariat statement and the same handout photographs, so they are not independent reporting.
Bahia military police eradicated a marijuana planting of about 19,000 plants in caatinga near Quipa in rural Juazeiro on 9 November 2026. Officers of the 74th CIPM/Rural destroyed the crop and sent samples to Juazeiro's drugs and narcotics station.
Bahia's Military Police, with the 25th Independent Military Police Company and the Bahia Civil Police, found and burned about 3,000 cannabis plants on a roughly one-hectare plantation in the Olho D'água district of rural Remanso. Officers seized about 17 kg of cannabis ready for use, seeds, scales, a pump, an air rifle, a phone and three motorcycles, and made no arrests.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 3,000Area 1 haCannabis 17 kg
Maranhão Civil Police destroyed about 45,000 cannabis plants in three rural plantations in Turiaçu on 5 November 2026, calling it the largest eradication in the municipality's history. No arrests were reported as investigations continue to identify those behind the crops.
Brazil's Federal Police uprooted about 20,000 cannabis plants and arrested three people on 4 November 2026 on four plots in the rural zone of Paes Landim, southern Piauí. The force estimated the destroyed crop could have produced about four tonnes of cannabis.
