30,418 cannabis plants destroyed in Soufriere raids
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.
🇱🇨 Ravine Clear and Migny, Fond St Jacques, Soufriere · Saint Lucia
Officers attached to the Soufriere Police Station conducted an eradication
exercise on a marijuana plantation at Ravine Clear, Soufriere, on Wednesday 16
January 2013.[1]During that Ravine Clear exercise, officers destroyed 16,008
marijuana seedlings growing on the plantation.[1]During the same Ravine Clear
exercise, officers destroyed 2,260 grown marijuana plants found alongside the
seedlings.[1]At Ravine Clear, police also seized a white bucket containing
compressed marijuana.[1]
On Tuesday 22 January 2013, the same Soufriere officers conducted eradication
exercises on two other marijuana plantations at Migny in Fond St Jacques,
Soufriere.[1]At those two Migny plantations, officers destroyed 8,500
seedlings and 3,650 fully grown marijuana plants.[1]
No one was arrested in relation to either the Ravine Clear exercise or the later
Migny exercises.[1]
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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 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.
