Two arrested as police destroy 150,000 cannabis plants in Yala park
Police officers from four stations destroyed about 150,000 cannabis plants cultivated inside Yala National Park on 5 February 2021 and arrested two suspects. Police spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said at least 20 anti-narcotic operations were carried out that day.
🇱🇰 Yala National Park, near Gonaganara, Ampara District · Sri Lanka
Police officers from the Gonaganara, Athimale, Dambagalla and Siyambalanaduwa
stations destroyed about 150,000 cannabis plants cultivated inside Yala
National Park on 5 February 2021 and arrested two suspects.[1]Police
spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said the arrests were made during a special
operation, one of at least 20 anti-narcotic operations conducted that day.[1]
The two suspects were held for cultivating cannabis inside the park.[1]The report names no suspects, gives no area for the cleared cultivation and
reports no charges or later court outcome.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
2
Plants destroyed
150,000
Agency
Sri Lanka Police
Agency type
Police
Cannabis
Living plants (150,000 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Forest or wild land
Grown
Outdoor
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
The Morningthemorning.lkTwo arrested for cultivating cannabis inside Yala National Park; 150,000 plants destroyed
Open questions the AI reported
The article gives no names for the two suspects and reports no charges or court outcome.
No figure for the area cleared or the weight of the destroyed plants was published.
The whole account rests on a single news report; no second outlet account was found.
Officers of the Monaragala Police Narcotics Bureau raided a two-acre cannabis cultivation in the Maw Ara area of Hambegamuwa and arrested three suspects. All 36,710 plants, six to eight feet tall, were uprooted and burned on site, and the suspects were handed to Hambegamuwa Police.
Hambegamuwa police burned about 23,000 cannabis plants in a banana field of about one acre and about 17,000 more in an orange grove of about three-quarters of an acre at Rathbalawewa, and arrested two local residents. Police put the crop at about 10 million rupees. The suspects were to be produced at Wellawaya Magistrate's Court.
Sri Lanka's Coast Guard and the Police Special Task Force arrested one person and burned more than 50,000 locally cultivated cannabis saplings in the Yala Jungle area. The suspect was handed to Kataragama Police for further investigation.
Acting on army intelligence, Hambegamuwa police and soldiers raided a three-acre cannabis field inside the Udawalawe reserve on 11 April and seized about 155,000 plants worth Rs 4.5 million. The reports name no arrests.
