4,007 marijuana plants uprooted in Soufriere eradication
Soufriere police uprooted 4,007 fully grown marijuana plants at a plantation in St Phillips, Fond St Jacques, on 23 February 2013. Officers also recovered three bags of compressed marijuana and burned the drugs, and no one was arrested.
🇱🇨 St Phillips, Fond St Jacques, Soufriere · Saint Lucia
On Saturday 23 February 2013, officers attached to the Soufriere Police Station
conducted an eradication exercise on a marijuana plantation at St Phillips, Fond
St Jacques, Soufriere, Saint Lucia.[1]The plantation lay in the Fond St
Jacques community of the Soufriere district.[1]
According to police, the officers uprooted a total of 4,007 fully grown
marijuana plants.[1]In addition, officers recovered three bags of compressed
marijuana at the site.[1]Police destroyed the uprooted plants and the three
bags of compressed marijuana by fire.[1]
No one was arrested in relation to the incident.[1]The eradication exercise
therefore removed both growing plants and processed marijuana from the
plantation and left no one in custody.[1]
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No weight was published for the three bags of compressed marijuana, so no cannabis weight is recorded.
Only one source for this event could be opened; no second account confirming or adding facts was found.
No information was published about who cultivated the plantation or who owned the compressed marijuana.
The two photographs on the page are captioned only by file name, with no description or credit, so it cannot be confirmed that they show this particular exercise.
Whether this exercise was part of a wider Soufriere campaign in early 2013 is not stated; the earlier January 2013 eradications at Ravine Clear and Migny are recorded in a separate report.
Police searching Black Bay, Laborie, seized 23.2 pounds of cannabis and EC$765 in cash on 10 January 2026, then destroyed 1,368 plants across six plantations. Leroy Willie and Glenroy Willie were charged with possession, intent to supply and cultivation.
Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 1,368Cannabis 10.52 kg
Police eradicated 9,356 cannabis plants and seized 68 pounds of cannabis in Garrand, Babonneau, on 24 September 2025. Kenny Akim Eleodore and Glen Elijah Marius were arrested and charged, with Eleodore remanded and Marius bailed, as the Herbal Cooperative condemned the raid.
Arrested 2Charged 2Plants destroyed 9,356Cannabis 30.84 kg
Gros-Islet police and the Drug Unit of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force uprooted and destroyed 11,115 fully grown cannabis plants and 3,100 seedlings in Beausejour and Belle Vue, Dennery, on 5 March 2015. No one was arrested after either eradication exercise.
Soufriere police destroyed 30,418 cannabis plants across three plantations at Ravine Clear and Migny in January 2013, also seizing a bucket of compressed marijuana. No one was arrested in either eradication exercise.