Military police destroyed a cannabis plantation of about 12,000 plants on the morning of Tuesday 21 October 2025 in indigenous land in Pesqueira, in Pernambuco’s Agreste region.[1] The plantation covered about two hectares.[1]

According to the Military Police, investigations by the 8th Independent Military Police Company (8ª CIPM) showed that a crop near Aldeia Lagoa was growing the drug.[1] Officers who went to the site were met with gunfire from men guarding the plantation and returned fire.[1] The suspects escaped through the vegetation in the exchange of fire and were not caught.[1] Police found a further 92 kilograms of cannabis already harvested and ready for consumption, stored in eleven plastic sacks.[1] The crop was burned on the land itself, except for a small sample kept for presentation at the Civil Police station.[1]

Diario de Pernambuco reported that officers of the 8th CIPM went to the site and found a place where the drug was grown and sold.[2] Diario de Pernambuco reported that the crop was being grown in the indigenous area of the municipality, near Aldeia Lagoa.[2] Portal Agreste Violento reported that surveillance, operations, rural patrol and GATI teams took part; GATI is the tactical motorised support group of the Pernambuco Military Police.[3] Portal Agreste Violento reported that the Civil Police in Pesqueira will investigate the origin of the crop and try to identify those responsible.[3]