On Monday 9 November 2026, officers of the Maritime Intelligence Cell and the Divisional Crime Intelligence Unit dismantled a cannabis crop hidden in a sugarcane field at Petite-Retraite.[1] The intervention was carried out by DPS Rungapen of the Maritime Intelligence Cell with members of the Divisional Crime Intelligence Unit Northern.[2] The operation took place at about 9:30 a.m. after police gathered intelligence.[2] The cultivators had not been identified when the accounts appeared.[2] An investigation was opened to find those responsible for the cannabis cultivation.[2]
Officers uprooted and seized 347 plants of cannabis, called gandia, from a sugarcane field at Petite-Retraite.[1] The plants measured between 6 and 39 centimetres tall and were uprooted and secured.[2] Police said they acted on precise intelligence to break up the cultivation concealed among the sugarcane.[1]
