Military Police uproot 6,000 cannabis plants in rural Petrolina
Military Police in Pernambuco uprooted 6,000 cannabis plants at Nova Descoberta, a rural hamlet of Petrolina, on 12 August 2025 and seized 10 kilograms of cannabis, guns and a phone. No one had been arrested when the report was published.
🇧🇷 Povoado de Nova Descoberta, zona rural de Petrolina, Pernambuco · Brazil
Plants destroyed
6,000
Cannabis
10 kg
Agencies
Polícia Militar de Pernambuco, Polícia Civil de Pernambuco
Military Police officers in Pernambuco uprooted 6,000 cannabis plants on Tuesday
12 August 2025 in Petrolina, in the state’s Sertão region.[1]The plantation
was found at Nova Descoberta, a rural hamlet of the municipality, during an
operation the police named Operação Saturação.[1]
According to the Military Police, officers also seized10 kilograms of cannabis,
a .38 revolver, six rounds of .38 ammunition, a 5.5 mm air rifle and a mobile
phone.[1]The police said all the material was taken to the Civil Police
station for the legal measures to be taken.[1]No one had been arrested by the
time the report was published.[1]
The Petrolina outlet Edenevaldo Alves published the same police tally for
Operação Saturação, adding that the seized phone was a Redmi handset.[2]Edenevaldo Alves listed 6,000 plants eradicated and 10 kilograms of cannabis
seized, with six intact .38 rounds.[2]
Photos and video
Handout photo published with the report on the eradication in Nova Descoberta, captioned ''Operação da polícia erradica 6.000 Mil pés de Maconha, apreende armas, munições e celular''. Photo: Ascom/PMPEPhoto details
No figure for the area of the plantation destroyed was published.
The reports give no account of who cultivated the field, and police reported no arrests.
Only the police handout tally is available, and the two local outlets appear to reproduce the same Military Police statement.
No prosecution or court outcome has been reported.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Ricardo Banana: The Petrolina blog Ricardo Banana reprinted G1's account of the eradication and credited G1 as its source.
Bahia military police eradicated a marijuana planting of about 19,000 plants in caatinga near Quipa in rural Juazeiro on 9 November 2026. Officers of the 74th CIPM/Rural destroyed the crop and sent samples to Juazeiro's drugs and narcotics station.
Bahia's Military Police, with the 25th Independent Military Police Company and the Bahia Civil Police, found and burned about 3,000 cannabis plants on a roughly one-hectare plantation in the Olho D'água district of rural Remanso. Officers seized about 17 kg of cannabis ready for use, seeds, scales, a pump, an air rifle, a phone and three motorcycles, and made no arrests.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 3,000Area 1 haCannabis 17 kg
Maranhão Civil Police destroyed about 45,000 cannabis plants in three rural plantations in Turiaçu on 5 November 2026, calling it the largest eradication in the municipality's history. No arrests were reported as investigations continue to identify those behind the crops.
Brazil's Federal Police uprooted about 20,000 cannabis plants and arrested three people on 4 November 2026 on four plots in the rural zone of Paes Landim, southern Piauí. The force estimated the destroyed crop could have produced about four tonnes of cannabis.
