20,000 cannabis plants eradicated in Santa Helena, Maranhão
Maranhão security forces eradicated about 20,000 cannabis plants and 200 kg of cannabis at Roça do Mundico in Santa Helena on 17 May 2026. Police destroyed the crop on site and estimated the loss to drug trafficking at R$600,000.
🇧🇷 Roça do Mundico, povoado Mundico, Santa Helena, Maranhão · Brazil
Integrated forces of the Maranhão public-security system eradicated a plantation
of approximately 20,000 cannabis plants in Santa Helena, in the Baixada
Maranhense region, on Sunday 17 May 2026.[1]Air Tactical Centre (CTA-MA)
teams located the plantation at a place known as Roça do Mundico, in the village
of Mundico.[1]
During the operation officers also found about 200 kilograms of the drug in an
advanced stage of cultivation.[1]The whole plantation was destroyed following
the operational protocols used by the teams involved.[1]Police put the
estimated loss to local drug trafficking at approximately R$600,000.[1]
The action was part of Operation Bioma/Amazônia – Brasil contra o Crime
Organizado, a national strategy coordinated under the AMAS Plan against
environmental crime and criminal organizations in the Legal Amazon.[1]G1’s
police account likewise reported about 20,000 plants eradicated in Santa Helena
and about 200 kilograms of the drug in an advanced cultivation stage.[2]O
Imparcial confirmed the CTA-MA identification, the 20,000 plants and 200
kilograms destroyed on site, and the same R$600,000 estimated loss.[3]
Photos and video
Field photos of the eradicated cannabis plantation at Roça do Mundico published with the SSP-MA report.Photo details
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