Farmer, 60, arrested with 55 cannabis plants in Pakour
Gendarmes at Pakour in Senegal's Kolda region arrested a 60-year-old farmer on 26 April 2016 after finding 55 cannabis plants growing inside his compound at Kathy Latty village. Officers also seized about 3 kg of processed cannabis and two firearms, and he was to be taken before the Kolda prosecutor.
🇸🇳 Kathy Latty village, Pakour commune, Vélingara department, Kolda region · Senegal
Gendarmes of the Pakour post arrested 60-year-old farmer S. F. on Tuesday 26
April 2016 at Kathy Latty village in Pakour commune, in Senegal’s Vélingara
department.[1]A search of his home found 55 cannabis plants and two firearms.[1]Officers found the hemp field inside his compound at about 6 am that day,
well kept and in the heart of the village.[1]Kathy Latty is described as a
village with many hemp growers and cannabis traffickers who supply the Kolda
region and both Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry.[1]
A gendarmerie source said the officers seized 55 cannabis plants plus uprooted,
dried plants and about 3 kilograms of finished, processed and packaged product.[1]The two firearms were a hunting rifle and a hand-made pistol.[1]The same
gendarmerie source said the investigations formed part of the fight against drug
trafficking in the Pakour area, which borders Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Plants destroyed
55
Cannabis
3 kg
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Living plants (55 plants)
Activity
Trafficking, Cultivation
Setting
Home
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
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Open questions the AI reported
The sources give no weight for the 55 plants beyond the gendarmerie's approximate 3 kg of processed product, and no street value.
Dakaractu places Kathy Latty in the commune of Pakour, while Senego names the village Kathilaty in the commune of Paroumba; both describe the same Pakour gendarmerie operation.
No date is given beyond 'Tuesday 26 April'; 2016 is established by both articles' publication dates, and no separate date for the search is reported.
No charges, trial date or court outcome were reported; the reports say only that he would be judged in the coming days.
Both accounts appear to draw on the same EnQuête reporting, and no separate official gendarmerie statement could be opened.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Dakaractu: The farmer was held in custody and was to be taken before the Kolda prosecutor on the Wednesday, then held at the Kolda remand prison (Maison d'Arrêt et de Correction) to await trial in the following days.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Senego: Senego reported that the Pakour gendarmerie brigade arrested a man who grew hemp in his house, behind the dwellings, in the same Vélingara department case.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Senego: Senego reported that the arrested man was transferred to the Diaobé gendarmerie brigade pending his transfer to Kolda, and that a hand-made pistol and a hunting rifle were found with him.
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