Police uproot 1,819 and 2,335 cannabis plants in Navosa raids
Thirty police officers entered Fiji's Navosa highlands in early July 2004 and uprooted 1,819 cannabis plants in one raid and 2,335 in another. Growers fought back by strewing nails across roads, blowing out police vehicle tires. No arrests were named in the opened source.
Thirty police officers entered the Navosa highlands in early July 2004 and
uprooted 1,819 cannabis plants in one raid and 2,335 in another.[1]Growers fought back without direct violence, strewing nails across the roads:
a police vehicle blew a tire returning from the raids, and three more
vehicles blew tires two days later after a raid in the interior of
Korolevu.[1]
“It is the marijuana cultivators, and we believe that it is being
deliberately done to keep us away,” a police spokesman told the Fiji
Times.[1]The paper said growers had also killed informers’ cattle and
destroyed their crops, and that only some villagers assisted the
police.[1]Peasants in the islands’ interior had turned to cannabis as a
cash crop in a tough economy.[1]The Fiji Post reported further raids days
later.[1]
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Police discovered a 1,500-plant marijuana farm at Vesivuru, Lea, and a 100-plant farm at Nawi, Tukavesi, arresting the suspected owner, a 38-year-old man, as nationwide operations continued on 29 October 2026.
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