Police destroy marijuana plantation in Rhaburn Ridge, Belize
Belize Police Department officers destroyed a marijuana plantation in the Rhaburn Ridge area, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said in September 2024. Neither the size of the plantation nor any arrests were reported, and the announcement came alongside cocaine operations in northern Belize.
🇧🇿 Rhaburn Ridge, Orange Walk police jurisdiction, Belize
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Belize Police Department officers destroyed a marijuana plantation in the
Rhaburn Ridge area after acting on information they received.[1]Commissioner
of Police Chester Williams said Rhaburn Ridge lies in the Belize District but
falls under the Orange Walk police jurisdiction.[1]
The destruction was announced together with a drug operation in Sarteneja,
Corozal District, where police found 25 parcels of suspected cocaine weighing
28.38 kilograms at a home and detained four people.[2]Separately, police
reported a drug bust in the Chunox Village area of Corozal District where six
parcels of suspected cocaine were found at a house and a number of people were
detained.[1]Williams said one of those detained over the Chunox parcels
pleaded guilty in court while the case was withdrawn against the other.[1]
Williams said the police operations in the north are continuing with resources
the government of Belize has funded.[1]Love FM carried the same briefing,
quoting Williams saying the police recently destroyed a marijuana plantation in
the Rhaburn Ridge area.[2]Mikey Live, a Caribbean news site, reproduced the
same Rhaburn Ridge account in its report on the prime minister denying Belize is
a major drug-producing country.[3]
No figure was published for the number of plants destroyed, the area cleared, the weight of cannabis or the value of the plantation.
The article gives no specific date for the destruction beyond saying it was recent; 19 September 2024, the publication date, stands in for the incident.
Police report no arrests or suspects in the plantation operation, and no one was reported charged over it.
The location is described only as the Rhaburn Ridge area, with the commissioner uncertain whether it falls in the Belize District, so the coordinates mark the locality.
The six parcels of cocaine found at a house in the Chunox Village area and the 25 parcels seized in Sarteneja are separate, non-cannabis cases reported in the same briefing and are not covered by this report.
The three outlets repeat the same police briefing rather than giving independent accounts.
The text gives a weight ("28.38 kilograms") but the figures have no kg_seized; check whether it belongs there.
A police drone recon in a remote part of Toledo District found cannabis drying under a zinc-roofed structure in a corn field and a second cultivation site nearby. Officers uprooted and burned 86 plants, three to seven feet tall.
Belize police found a plantation of 875 marijuana plants in Orange Walk District on the morning of 16 September 2024 and uprooted and burned the crop. No one was present at the site and no arrests were reported.
Belizean forces with US Joint Task Force-Bravo destroyed more than 50,000 marijuana plants across Belize during Operation CARACOL on 26-30 October 2015. US Army helicopters provided airlift, ladder training and medical-evacuation cover while Belizean teams identified and eliminated the fields.
Belizean forces with US Joint Task Force-Bravo helicopters destroyed more than 52,800 marijuana plants plus seeds and processed marijuana across Belize from 29 September to 3 October 2014, with an estimated street value over $27 million.
