About 9,000 cannabis plants destroyed in rural Terra Alta, Pará
Pará's Civil Police destroyed about 9,000 cannabis plants growing in dense forest in the Umirizal community, rural Terra Alta, during the operation Inimigo Oculto. Officers seized a homemade 28-gauge gun and ammunition at the site, and no one had been arrested by the following afternoon.
🇧🇷 Comunidade do Umirizal, zona rural de Terra Alta, Pará · Brazil
The Pará Civil Police operation named Inimigo Oculto located and destroyed about
9,000 cannabis plants on Tuesday 30 May 2023.[1]The plants were growing in an
area surrounded by dense forest and protected by traps in the Umirizal
community, in the rural zone of Terra Alta in north-eastern Pará.[1]
At the site officers seized a homemade 28-gauge firearm and one round of
ammunition.[1]By the early afternoon of Wednesday 31 May no one had been
arrested.[1]A sample of the vegetation was also seized and sent for analysis
to the forensic science police headquarters in Belém.[1]
Thiago Dias, director of the Guamá regional superintendency, said further steps
would be taken to identify the cultivators and everyone involved in the
production.[1]
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Cannabis plants found during the operation in rural Terra Alta, in a Civil Police handout captioned '9 mil pés de maconha são localizados e destruídos durante operação da polícia, em Terra Alta, no Pará'. Photo: Ascom Polícia CivilPhoto details
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Source: G1The seized cannabis plants in a Civil Police handout captioned '9 mil pés de maconha são localizados e destruidos no Pará'. Photo: Ascom Polícia CivilPhoto details
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