35,000 marijuana plants and 500 kg destroyed in Vraem joint operation
Peru's National Police and Army destroyed about 35,000 marijuana plants growing on four hectares at Hacienda Caldera in the Anco district, and confiscated and destroyed 500 kilograms of dried marijuana stored in eight rustic storehouses. The joint Vraem operation on 3 May 2018 followed intelligence about the site, and the drugs were sent to Lima; no arrests were reported.
🇵🇪 Hacienda Caldera area, Anco district, La Mar, Ayacucho · Peru
Peru’s National Police and Army destroyed about 35,000 marijuana plants growing on four hectares at Hacienda Caldera in the Anco district on 3 May 2018, in a joint operation by the local Vraem front and the special Vraem Commando.[1]Acting on intelligence, officers drove to the area in five cars and found the fields, then confiscated and destroyed 500 kilograms of dried marijuana stored in eight rustic storehouses on the same site.[1]The drugs were subsequently sent to Lima.[1]
The Vraem, the valley of the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro rivers, is the country’s main drug-growing region, and the reports name no arrests and no owners of the fields or the storehouses.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Plants destroyed
35,000
Area
4 ha
of it destroyed
500 kg
Agencies
Peruvian National Police; Peruvian Army
Agency type
Police, Military
Cannabis
Living plants (35,000 plants); Herbal cannabis (500 kg)
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