Rikitea gendarmes uprooted and seized 233 cannabis plants from a cultivated plot in Rikitea district on Mangareva island. The identified plot owner was summoned to the brigade and was to answer possession, use and resale charges before the next tribunal forain.
Gendarmes serving with the Rikitea brigade discovered a plantation of paka
growing on the island of Mangareva.[1]The owner of the cultivated parcel was
identified by the gendarmes and summoned to attend the gendarmerie brigade.[1]He was expected to answer charges of possession, use and resale of narcotic
products before the next sitting of the tribunal forain.[1]
The field operation was carried out by two mobile gendarmes acting with the
support of a municipal police officer.[1]Working as a team, the officers
uprooted and seized the cannabis plants they found growing in the district of
Rikitea.[1]The seizure totalled 233 cannabis plants taken from the cultivated
plot.[1]
Paka is the local name used for the plantation crop.[1]The uprooted crop
consisted of cannabis plants, confirming the paka plantation was a cannabis
crop.[1]The discovery, uprooting and seizure therefore concerned the same
plantation during a single intervention in Rikitea.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The headline gives 223 plants while the article body gives 233 plants; the report uses the body's 233.
The article was published on 15 October 2014 and says the discovery happened yesterday, so the incident is dated to 14 October 2014, although the text also calls that day Wednesday.
The plot owner was identified and summoned, but no arrest, formal charge count or court outcome was reported.
No weight, cultivated area, monetary value or additional suspects were reported.
Only one source account of this event could be opened; no second confirming report was found.
Gendarmes and Punaauia municipal police checked a car at the town hall and seized 4.90 g of cannabis handed over by the driver on 3 October 2026. All three occupants were placed in police custody, and the cannabis holder was summoned for 3 February 2027.
Customs seized 794 cannabis plants and 208 cuttings, about 513 kg, in Huahine and destroyed them on site. The raid was one of the largest cannabis seizures reported in the territory.
Gendarmes seized and destroyed 272 cannabis plants, about 42 kg of herb, at two hidden grow sites in Huahine on 8 October 2025. No growers had been identified and an investigation was continuing.
On 24 January 2024, gendarmes seized 298 cannabis plants at Mataura on the island of Tubuai, implicating four individuals. The French Polynesia gendarmerie said it had seized and destroyed 848 plants territory-wide since the start of 2024.
