50,000 cannabis plants burned after seizure on São José dos Pinhais farm
Municipal guards and Civil Police officers found about 50,000 cannabis plants sown among maize on a chácara in Colônia Murici, in the rural area of São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, and arrested the owner, Antonio Olinek, 38, in January 2011. About 1.2 tonnes of the plants were trucked into the city and burned on 24 January, watched by 16 security officers.
🇧🇷 Colônia Murici, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná · Brazil
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Municipal guards and Civil Police officers went to a chácara, a small country
property, in Colônia Murici in the rural area of São José dos Pinhais, in the
Curitiba metropolitan region, on Thursday 20 January 2011 after anonymous
tip-offs.[1]They arrested the owner of the property, Antonio Olinek, 38, in
the act.[1]Officers estimated that about 50,000 cannabis plants had been sown
among a maize crop on the property, some up to three metres tall.[1]Olinek
told officers he had received the seeds from some young people and said he had
no intention of selling the product.[1]
The plants were removed on Friday 21 January and held until the decision to burn
them.[1]The burning of the roughly 50,000 plants began at about 14:00 on
Monday 24 January 2011 in São José dos Pinhais.[1]A truck carried about 1.2
tonnes of the cannabis plants to a company inside the city whose name was
withheld for security reasons.[1]Sixteen security officers, among them
municipal guards, Civil Police officers and police chiefs, accompanied the
incineration.[1]
Photos and video
Cannabis plants found in the rural area of São José dos Pinhais, in a picture published with the Gazeta do Povo report on the chácara plantation. Photo: Daniel Castellano/Agência de Notícias da Gazeta do PovoPhoto details
The article gives no separate date for the discovery; the reporting says the plantation was found on Tuesday 18 January and the operation went to the property on Thursday 20 January, and 18 January is used as the incident date.
Only one account of this event was found and opened, the Gazeta do Povo report; no municipal guard or Civil Police statement or second outlet account was located.
The figure of about 50,000 plants is an approximation given by the reporting, and the material trucked away weighed about 1.2 tonnes, not an exactly measured quantity.
No field size was published for the area cleared on the property.
No charge, custody decision or court outcome for the landowner was reported, and he is named only as the owner of the chácara who was arrested in the act.
The article links to its own earlier stories on this plantation and on other properties found with cannabis, but those pages could not be opened, so their additional details are not used.
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