More than 30 drying cannabis plants seized in Pointe-à-Pitre
Police seized cannabis plants drying on lines in an abandoned house at Cour Zamia, Pointe-à-Pitre, on 31 May 2022 after a drug dog found two sachets of cannabis in tall grass. The plants were seized and destroyed; the account reports people fleeing but no arrests.
🇫🇷 Cour Zamia, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe · France
On Tuesday afternoon, Territorial National Police officers seized several
cannabis plants in a disused house at Cour Zamia.[1]On 31 May in the late
afternoon, acting on a requisition from the public prosecutor, DTPN officers ran
an identity-check operation in Pointe-à-Pitre.[1]The operation covered the
sectors of Zamia, Raspail, chemin Neuf and Massabielle in Pointe-à-Pitre.[1]When officers arrived in Zamia, several people fled at the sight of the police.[1]
The police dog used in the operation is specialised in searching for narcotics.[1]In tall grass the dog found two sachets containing cannabis.[1]Following
the dog into a ruined house, officers found a line holding more than ten
cannabis plants left to dry.[1]In another room of the same abandoned house,
officers found a second line holding more than twenty cannabis herb plants.[1]
All of the cannabis plants were seized and then destroyed.[1]The DTPN is the
Territorial Directorate of the National Police.[1]
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No exact plant count was published, only more than ten plants on one line and more than twenty on a second line, so no plants_destroyed figure is recorded.
No weight for the plants or the two sachets was published, so no kilograms can be recorded.
No arrests, names, charges or court outcome were reported; several people were described as fleeing when police arrived.
Only one accessible source for this 31 May 2022 seizure was found after searching in French; no second account or agency statement could be opened.
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