Carabinieri arrest two men in an Onanì field of about 1,900 plants
Carabinieri from Bitti found about 1,900 cannabis plants ready for harvest near Onanì, arrested two men tending them, and ordered a third to stay in his home town. The plants were uprooted for destruction.
🇮🇹 Onanì, Nuoro, Sardinia · Italy
- Arrested
- 2
- Plants destroyed
- 1,900
Carabinieri of the Bitti company, with the helicopter squadron Cacciatori di
Sardegna, found a field hidden in thick vegetation near Onanì, in Nuoro
province.[1][2] ANSA says it held more than 1,900 plants of cannabis indica,
ready for harvest.[1] La Nuova Sardegna puts the count at about 1,900, in
an advanced stage of ripening.[2]
Two men were caught tending the crop and arrested in the act.[1][2] A judge
confirmed the arrests and ordered a third man, described as their accomplice,
to remain in the town where he lives.[1][2] The plants were sampled for a
laboratory test of their THC and then pulled up to be destroyed.[1] La
Nuova Sardegna says an irrigation system was dismantled and seized with the
tools used to tend the plants.[2]
The same accounts describe a separate find of about 1,000 plants at Lula.[1][2] That operation is not this one.[2]
Sources
- Sequestrate due piantagioni di marijuana con 3mila piante nel Nuorese. ANSA, 21 October 2026. In Italian. Archived copy.
- Tremila piante di marijuana sotto sequestro, due arresti e due denunce: il doppio blitz dei carabinieri. La Nuova Sardegna, 21 October 2026. In Italian. Archived copy.
Open questions the AI reported
- The reports say the searches were in the preceding days and give no single day. 21 October is the publication date.
- A plantation of about 1,000 plants at Lula, found in a separate operation the same week, is left out here.
- La Nuova Sardegna mentions an earlier police raid at Loculi only as background. That is a different event.
- The photograph shows one plant and a carabiniere. The reports do not say it was taken in the Onanì field.