Takeo police destroyed 1,139 marijuana plants in seven mountainside plots in Preah Bat Choanchum commune, Kirivong district, on Saturday 10 March 2018. No growers were found; police said the owners remained unknown and the investigation was continuing.
🇰🇭 Preah Bat Choanchum commune, Kirivong district, Takeo · Cambodia
The owners of the marijuana plants remained unknown and police were continuing
to investigate the case.[1]No suspects were named in connection with the
seven plots.[1]Officers burned the plants at the scene immediately after
finding them.[1]Police said someone had planted the cannabis illegally along
the mountainside thinking officers would not find it.[1]
Officers found and destroyed 1,139 marijuana plants in seven different locations
in Preah Bat Choanchum commune.[1]The seven sites were in Kirivong district
in Takeo province.[1]Deputy district police chief Yang Dara said his officers
were following orders from provincial police during the Saturday operation.[1]Police described the Saturday operation as a continuation of their crackdown on
illegal marijuana plantations.[1]
Police said the seizure brought the total they had destroyed so far in 2018 to
about 56,000 marijuana plants.[1]A Takeo provincial police report also put
the year’s police total at nearly 56,000 marijuana plants destroyed so far that
year.[1]
Photos and video
Photo of the destroyed marijuana plants published with the report. Photo: National Police.Photo details
The article was published on 12 March 2018 and dates the raid to Saturday, so 10 March 2018 is used as the incident date.
No suspects were named and no arrests were reported in this raid; the owners were described as unknown and the investigation as continuing.
No weight, area, value or court outcome was published for this raid.
Only one accessible account of this raid was found after searching in English; no second source could be opened.
A second inline image on the page carries no caption or credit establishing that it shows this seizure, so it is not listed as media.
The same article also mentions a separate January case in which Keo Phu was sent to court over 10 kilos of marijuana, separate military-police burnings and 2017 national drug totals; those separate events are left out of this report.
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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.
