1,398 cannabis plants destroyed in Takeo's Kiri Vong district
Takeo provincial police destroyed 1,398 marijuana plants on six fields in Chroy village, Kiri Vong district, after villagers reported them. The growers escaped and police said experts were searching for them so they could be punished.
🇰🇭 Chroy village, Preah Bat Chonchum commune, Kiri Vong, Takeo · Cambodia
Takeo provincial police were hunting the growers of more than 1,000 cannabis
plants on six fields in Chroy village in Preah Bat Chonchum commune, Kiri Vong
district.[1]The account was given by Kiri Vong district deputy police chief
Hiem Srim.[1]The growers had escaped and Srim said he did not know how many
of them there were.[1]Srim said a team of experts was investigating and
searching for the suspects so they could be punished accordingly.[1]Commune
police chief In Savuth said he did not take part in the bust.[1]
Provincial and district police raided the fields on the preceding Sunday after
receiving reports from villagers.[1]The six fields totalled at least 979sqm.[1]Officers destroyed 1,398 marijuana plants and one water storage during the
raid.[1]
Srim said the hunt was launched because the suspects would not stop planting
cannabis around the radio tower in Chroy village even after an earlier
crackdown.[1]
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Destroyed cannabis plants in Takeo province after the Sunday raid. Photo supplied.Photo details
The raid date is given only as Sunday relative to a Wednesday statement in an article published 21 February 2019, so 17 February 2019 is used as the incident date.
No arrests, names, charges or court outcome were reported; the growers had escaped and the number involved was unknown.
Only one accessible source for this raid was found after searching, so no second account corroborates it.
National 2018 drug-detention and seizure totals mentioned in the same article were left out as separate statistics belonging to another record.
On 14 February 2025 Oral district military police and Kampong Speu provincial military police raided three one-hectare farms in Keng Raing Valley, burning 7,755 marijuana plants. Officers are searching for the cultivators; no one was arrested during the operation.
On 2 February 2025 Takeo provincial governor Vie Samnang led police, military police and district forces to seven illegal plantations on the Bayang Kor range, cutting and burning 3,365 plants across about 1,890 square metres and removing six water tanks. No arrests were reported.
Police destroyed thousands of marijuana seedlings spread across eight sites covering about 2,000 square metres on Toteung mountain in Takeo's Kiri Vong district, seizing six irrigation water tanks. No growers were arrested after they fled before police arrived, continuing a cycle of replanting and eradication reported since 2019.
Police in Mondulkiri province destroyed more than a hectare of marijuana in Sen Monorom City on 4 April 2021 and seized and destroyed about 50,000 plants weighing nearly 400 kilogrammes. The plantation owner fled before officers arrived and faces a search and up to five years in prison if convicted.
