Police burn 6,500 cannabis plants and find gun trap at Yarrowkabra
Police destroyed seven cannabis fields holding about 6,500 plants, a nursery of 3,500 seedlings, seven camps, 50 kg of dried cannabis and 3 kg of seeds at Yarrowkabra Backdam, and found an improvised shotgun set as a trap on a trail to the farm. No one was arrested.
Police conducted a drug eradication operation at Yarrowkabra Backdam on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway and found seven fields, about six acres in size, holding approximately 6,500 marijuana plants between two and seven feet in height.[1]A nursery containing 3,500 seedlings and seven camps stood on the same site.[1]
Officers also found 50 kg of dried cannabis and 3 kg of seeds at the farm.[1]On a trail leading to the farm they found an improvised shotgun with one live 12-gauge cartridge, set as a gun trap.[1]The plants and camps were destroyed.[1]
No arrests
No one was arrested during the operation, and the account names no suspects behind the fields, the stored cannabis or the gun trap.[1]
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